Arizona

ISTB7 is the seventh building in a series dedicated to Interdisciplinary Science and Technology on the Arizona State University (ASU) Tempe campus. Also known as the Walton Center for Planetary Health, the facility contains high-tech laboratories and hosts offices for several ASU departments and institutes. The building plan is roughly triangular shaped and contains an inner courtyard.

The Warehouse District covers two-fifths of a square mile just south of downtown Phoenix. The area deviates from the downtown street grid to accommodate the Union Pacific rail yard around which it was built in the early 1900s. The district continued to grow after that point to accommodate the shipping and commercial needs of the city. Agricultural shipping historically operated out of the warehouse district as well, as produce was brought into the city and distributed via refrigerated boxcars.

Established by presidential decree in 1924, Chiricahua National Monument is a 10,000-acre wilderness reserve located 120 miles southeast of Tucson. Though unique geological formations are what attract visitors to the reserve, the park is also notable for its use of the naturalistic landscape design principles and rustic architectural idioms that federal agencies employed frequently during the interwar decades.

Colonia Solana, designed in 1928, is Tucson’s first picturesque subdivision design to embrace its site’s existing topography and desert vegetation. The residential enclave’s asymmetrical platting, desert plantings, and coherent architectural policy were a departure from earlier and later subdivisions predicated upon a uniform grid with diverse housing stock fronted by green lawns and exotic flora.

Designed and constructed between 1929 and 1930 as “the finest little hotel between the Pacific Ocean and Phoenix,” the Hotel San Carlos capitalized on Yuma’s burgeoning tourist trade and served as the city’s leading hostelry during the 1930s and 1940s. Beginning in 1928, the city’s hotels benefitted from the passage of a “gin-marriage” law in California that required couples wait three days before obtaining a marriage license and marrying. As a result, California couples frequently traveled across the state line to either Nevada or Arizona.

Nestled in central Arizona’s Black Hills, Jerome, like Bisbee to the south, was an important copper mining center during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its output contributed to Arizona’s position as the nation’s leading copper-producing state in 1907. Although the town is associated with the United Verde Copper Company (UVCC), Jerome was not a true company town in the sense that it was owned and developed by a single corporation, although its existence was in fact entirely dependent on the local mining industry.

Sited on a ledge overlooking downtown Jerome, the United Verde Hospital was built by the United Verde Copper Company (UVCC) to treat the infirmities of its employees and their extended families, while the neighboring residence was built for the hospital’s chief surgeon on the lower end of Hill Street, closer to town. In 1917, Los Angeles–based architect Arthur R. Kelly designed both buildings in a Spanish Colonial Revival idiom.

Constructed about 1935, this single-story commercial building looks almost like an airplane hangar, with its vast, open interior hall alluding to its steel-arch roof structure. It once housed Jerome’s J.C. Penney dry goods store, but is now a banquet hall. The building’s plain, stucco facade is broken by a ribbon of plate-glass storefront windows, a recessed central entrance, and three louvered apertures, including an oculus at the pinnacle of the pointed-arch parapet that hides the steel-truss roof.

This monumental edifice, sited atop the bedrock that forms the 50-degree slopes of Mingus Mountain, is considered an engineering feat and is the Verde Valley’s highest building, perched at an elevation of 5,240 feet. This Mission Revival building was the last major civic structure constructed in Jerome, commissioned by the United Verde Copper Company (UVCC) mining company as a state-of-the-art hospital for its employees and their families.

By the turn of the twentieth century, Jerome boasted four churches: the Baptists erected the first place of worship in 1896, followed by the Catholics the same year; the Methodists organized and met in rented quarters in 1897; and the Episcopalians organized in 1900. The Haven Methodist Episcopal Church (HMEC) was formed on March 18, 1900. Under the leadership of Reverend George M. Smith, the 25 members of the HMEC raised $2,000 within two weeks to erect a chapel and small parsonage and to purchase the lot at the corner of School Street and Center Avenue.