From the article Locomotives of the White Pass & Yuko Route

The Dog Face George House

Bodie, California

Drawn by Neil A. Pfafman / HO Scale

Who was Dog Face George? History does not have much to say about him except that he had something to do with the house shown here. The house sits on the east side of Bodie beside Green Street as it runs up to the Railroad Office Building at the top of the hill above Bodie.

But the house does have something to say. The original part of the structure has a shake roof, but the rest has been added, mainly from scrap materials. It looks like scrap lumber was used to build most of the addition with some packing cases thrown in. Most of the house is covered with old flattened-out five gallon tin cans with a few larger and smaller cans tossed in for good measure.

The roof over the southeast corner is built with one corner higher than the rest which gives the roof an odd twist.

There is a hall that extends out of the north side of the house that may have led to an outhouse at one time or another. Let’s go with that since it matches other houses in Bodie.

Before you laugh at the way the Dog Face George house was built, remember that even after the ravages of time and weather, it is still standing.