The Sunflower Ranger Station, also known as Sunflower Administrative Site or Sycamore Ranger Station, in Tonto National Forest in the Sunflower district near

Punkin Center, Arizona Punkin Center is an unincorporated community in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The community is located within the Tonto Basin The Tonto Basin, also known as Pleasant Valley, covers the main drainage basin of Tonto Creek and its tributarie ...

was built in 1935 by the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1993 for its architecture, which is

Bungalow/Craftsman In the United States, the National Register of Historic Places classifies its listings by various types of architecture. Listed properties often are given one or more of 40 standard architectural style classifications that appear in the National ...

in style. It served historically as institutional housing and as government office space. The listing included two

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. It is located at elevation of about ; surroundings rise to . The station consists of six buildings (a residence/office, a barn/garage/shop, three sheds and a latrine) and a corral. The residence/office and the barn/garage/shop were built in 1935 and are the two contributing resources in the listing. with

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