Heritage Architecture, Tucson, AZ Photos

Tucson's earliest remaining buildings are adobe dating from the 1840s. By the 1900s a wide variety of styles were built with the best know architect being Henry C. Trost.

See also: San Xavier Del Bac Mission Church, Henry Charles Trost, Modern Architecture, Tucson
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Pima County Courthouse (1929).
Style: Spanish Colonial Revival. Architect: Roy Place. On National Register.

Tiled dome of Pima County Courthouse.

Rose carved on Pima County Courthouse.

Tiled dome of Pima County Courthouse.

Charles O. Brown House (c1840, 1876 & 1888) (40 W. Broadway Blvd.). Style: Adobe. On National Register.

Pasquale Court adobe row houses (before 1879) (209-219 17th St.) built by Juan Pasquale (Italian immigrant). On National Register.

Convent Ave. streetscape of Sonoran row houses at Kennedy (c1880s) in Barrio Historico.

Cactus against adobe in Barrio Historico.

Cactus & window in Barrio Historico.

St Augustine Cathedral (1896 & 1929 facade) (192 S. Stone Ave.).
Style: Spanish Colonial Revival.

St Augustine Cathedral Plateresque front.
Style: Spanish Colonial Revival.

Kruttschitte House (1886), now El Presidio Inn (297 N. Main Ave.). Style: Sonoran & Victorian house.

Rosalia Verdugo House (1887) (317-323 N. Main Ave.). Style: Sonoran row house.

Cheyney House (1905) (252 N. Main Ave.). Style: Mission Revival. Architect: Holmes & Holmes.

Residence (c1900) (521 E. University Blvd.). Style: Art Deco. Architect: Henry Jaastad.

Ashlar stone house (c1902) (1003 N. 5th Ave.).

Eliza Ward Rockwell House (1907-8) (405 W. Franklin). Style: Tudor. Architect: Holmes & Holmes.

Ziegler House (c1910) (126 N. 1st Ave.).
Style: Queen Anne.

Residence (c1915) (341 E. 1st St.). Style: Western Stick.

Catalina B&B (1927) (309 E. 1st St.).

Consolidated Bank of Tucson (1928-9) (2 E. Congress St.).
Architect: Cain Nelson Wares & Cook.

United States Court House (1929) (55 E. Broadway). Architect: James A. Wetmore.

Wells Fargo building (1955) (150 N. Stone Ave.). Architect: Place & Place.

Steinfeld Mansion (First Owls Club - 1898) (300 N. Main Ave.). Architect: Henry C. Trost.

Steinfeld Mansion patterned surface.

Second Owls Club (1902-3) (378 N. Main Ave.).
Style: Mission revival & Sullivanesque. Architect: Trost & Rust.

Second Owls Club textured surfaces & owl in round window.

Scheider-Healy House (1900-2) (324 S. 6th Ave.). Style: Adobe & Greek revival. Architect: Henry C. Trost.

Scheider-Healy House decoration.

Scheider-Healy House porch detail.

Willard (Pueblo) Hotel (1902-4) (145 S. 6th Ave.). Style: Mission Revival. Architect: Henry C. Trost.

Ronstadt House (1904) (607 N. 6th Ave.).
Architect: Trost & Rust. On National Register.

Ronstadt House portico.

Ronstadt House texture detail.

Bayless House (1905) (145 E. University Blvd.). Style: Mission-style. Architect: Trost & Rust.

Residence (1905) (721 E. University Blvd.). Style: Sullivanesque. Architect: Henry C. Trost.

721 E. University Blvd. pillar texture details.

Goodrich House (1908) (645 E. University Blvd.).
Style: Wright influence. Architect: Henry C. Trost.

Scottish Rite Cathedral (1915) (160 S. Scott Ave.).
Style: Neoclassical. Architect: Henry C. Trost.

Scottish Rite Cathedral facade detail.

Morman Battalion sculpture commemorating Mormons who enlisted in U.S. Army during 1846 war against Mexico to get federal funds for their migration to San Diego.

Native themes on pottery in shop in El Presidio district.

Mural "El Alma del Pueblo" detail.

Tourist trolley near campus of University of Arizona.


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