Unusual Real Estate Listing
# 453
Desert View Tower
Desert View for sale sign.
CLUI photo
The Southern Californian landmark Desert View Tower
is for sale, through real estate agent Ed Snively. The four-story,
handmade rock tower stands on the edge of the Jacumba Mountains,
looming thousands of feet above the Anza Borrego Desert. It was
built in the 1920's by a man named Burt Vaughn, to commemorate
pioneers crossing the desert to get to San Diego. Along with the
tower, the 113 acre property includes an unusual residence also
built by Vaughn, and a boulder grotto with rock carvings of skulls
and animals carved by W.T. Ratcliffe in the 1930's. The current
owner, the Desert Tower Corporation, currently operates a gift
store and museum at the tower.
