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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRE_florence-womans-club_Florence-AZ.html
The Florence Woman's Club was organized in 1897. In 1929, architects Lescher & Mahoney designed this Spanish Colonial Revival Style clubhouse. The original light fixtures are suspended from the ceiling, and an ornate Spanish-style fireplace is cen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRC_john-p-clum-house_Florence-AZ.html
Built in 1878 for John P. Clum, Indian agent, editor of Florence's first newspaper, the "Arizona Citizen" and founder of the "Tombstone Epitaph."
Typical of transitional architecture, the home is a Sonoran adobe with an Anglo-influenced roof.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR6_william-clark-house_Florence-AZ.html
Built for Silver King mining engineer William Clark in 1884, this house is a prime example of cultural fusion in architecture.
The Sonoran mud-plastered adobe walls were combined with an elegant Victorian louvered bay window, prefabricated entr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR5_juan-avenenti-building_Coolidge-AZ.html
Juan Avenenti, an Italian immigrant who came to Arizona about 1870, purchased this property in 1886 from Frank M. Griffen. Previously, it had belonged to Florence pioneers Levi Ruggles and Charles Douglas. Avenenti, a grocer, butcher and rancher, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR4_white-mccarthy-lumber-and-hardware-company_Coolidge-AZ.html
This single-story commercial building includes a partial basement, wide-open interior spaces, and a tall, carefully detailed, Main Street store front of exposed, buff-colored, pressed brick. The other walls are composed of common red brick. A meta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR3_c-g-powell-peoples-store_Coolidge-AZ.html
Town founder Levi Ruggles built a store on this site in 1876. In 1882, it became Peter Will's Brewery. It was demolished for the construction, in 1915, of the C. G. Powell People's Store, a single-story, commercial building. Prominent Phoenix arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR2_mauk-building_Coolidge-AZ.html
Built in 1925, this is an example of early 20th Century Commercial style. One of three structures in Florence designed by George Mauk of Phoenix. He was an architect movie house mogul, and U.S. marshal. This building was used as Arizona Edison and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQP_charles-rapp-saloon_Coolidge-AZ.html
This mid-1870 commercial building was built on the corner of Main and 7th streets. This Sonoran style building is the most intact of the four remaining untransformed examples of the adobe-walled, earth-roofed Sonoran traditional design which still…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQO_e-n-fish-co-store_Florence-AZ.html
Built in 1874 of unplastered adobe with pitched roofs, this second Edward Nye Fish mercantile store in Florence changed hands to become the, Joseph Collingwood & Co. Store and Wells Fargo office in 1877. Collingwood, Florence's first postmaster, h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQL_george-brockway-house_Florence-AZ.html
This Colonial Revival adobe was the home of George Brockway and his wife Esther. Brockway was the town medical doctor, Pinal County Hospital Superintendent and Territorial Prison physician. He owned a drugstore, and in 1908 became the first mayor …