Rex Ranch dates to the 19th century, and a few of the buildings from that period still stand. In 1938, Texan Rex Hamaker bought the property and opened the Rex Ranch Resort, which became a stopping ...

The team behind a plan to revitalize the historical Rex Ranch in Amado and turn it into a nonprofit science and art residency has been given an extra two months to raise the money to buy the property.

Rex Ranch, a historic 50-acre property developed in the Sonoran desert of Arizona in the 1880s and vacant since 2012, has grand plans to become the next non-profit cultural arts institution — with ...