Visitors can tour this unique 5,000 square foot home and gift shop. Inside are fourteen rooms arranged around huge pillars. Outside the living quarters is a rock and cactus garden and nearby are picnic tables and benches carved from stone. In a 12-year period Albert Christensen excavated 50,000 cubic feet of sandstone from the rock. During this time he completed his famous painting "Sermon on the Mount" and his sculpture of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the face of the rock above his home. His wife Gladys, in keeping with his wishes and lifelong dreams, continued to develop the home and gift shop into the world-renowned attraction it is today. When Gladys passed away in 1974 she was laid to rest next to Albert in a small cove within the rock near the home.
