Monday, May 18, 2015
Our last full day in Tucson! We drove back to the Museum of Art to park and complete our downtown tour. (We did parts of the tour on Saturday and Sunday.) We followed the
Turquoise Trail and more!
First a short cut across the Jacome Plaza.
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Framed Tamiko (KAH) |
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Framed Karen |
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Ronstadt Transit Center shelter |
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Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
at 414 N Toole Street |
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Karen with Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp
(2005) by Dan Bates |
After Morgan Earp's assassination, Wyatt and Doc were escorting Virgil Earp as far as the Tucson Depot, when Wyatt saw and shot Frank Stilwell. (I think!)
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Southern Pacific Locomotive #1673 (1900) |
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Old and new transportaton (KAH) |
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Tucson Depot (1907, restored to 1942 era)
at 414 N Toole Street;
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992;
still an active Amtrak station |
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Back door of Congress Hotel (1919,
designed by Alexander & William Curlett);
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 |
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Congress Hotel at 303-311 E Congress St;
site of capture of John Dillinger in 1934 |
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"Desert Splendor" by Daniel Martin Diaz,
at Centro Garage at 345 E Congress Street |
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Rialto Theater (1920-1922,
designed by Alexander & William Curlett)
at 318 E Congress St |
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US Courthouse and Post Office (1929-1930,
designed by James A Wetmore in Neoclassical style
with Mission style variations)
at 55 E Broadway Boulevard/38 S Scott Street |
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Sun Link Streetcar |
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Be Kind/I am Tucson mural (2012)
at E Broadway Blvd and Stone Avenue |
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Marist College Campus/Cathedral Parish Hall (1916) |
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Marist College Campus/Our Lady's Chapel (1916) |
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Marist College (1915),
Catholic boys' school closed in 1968;
only 3-story adobe building in Arizona,
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 |
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St Augustine Cathedral Placita |
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St Augustine Cathedral (1896-1928 in Mexican
Baroque style after the Cathedral of Querétaro, Mexico)
at 192 S Stone Avenue |
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St Augustine Cathedral cast stone façade |
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Indigenous plants carved around the arch |
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Horned lizard |
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St Augustine Cathedral sanctuary
with Pamplona Crucifix (c 1400)
installed in 1981 |
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Scottish Rite Cathedral (1915-1916,
designed by Henry C Trost in Roman Revival style
with Greek Ionic capitals)
at 160 S Scott Avenue;
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 |
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Scottish Rite Cathedral detail
(and bee's nest as we were informed by the homeless) |
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Griffin Toby (2009) Joe O'Connell (KAH) |
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1950s neon sign at Pueblo Hotel
(1902-1904, designed by Henry C Trost
in Mission Revival style)
at E 12th Street and S 6th Avenue |
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Freeman Memorial Bench (1920,
designed by Bernard Maybeck and sculpted by Benjamin Bufano) |
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Armory Park/Military Plaza WWII Memorial with
former Carnegie Free Library (1900-1901,
designed by Henry C Trost in Neoclassical style) in background,
now the Tucson Children's Museum |
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Safford School (1918, designed by Annie Rockfellow)
at 200 E 13th Street |
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Safford School detail |
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Temple of Music & Art (1927, designed by Arthur W Hawes
in Spanish Colonial Revival style);
founded by Madeline Heineman;
at 330 S Scott Avenue |
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WomanKraft House (1918) at 388 S Stone Avenue |
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WomanKraft gate |
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Primera Iglesia Bautista (1932) at 482 S Stone Avenue |
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Stone Avenue Temple/Temple Emanuel (1910, designed by Ely Blount
in a mixture of Neoclassical, Greek Revival, Romanesque, Moorish)
at 564 S Stone Avenue;
the oldest synagogue in Arizona |
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Tamiko on the Turquoise Trail (KAH) |
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Barrio Viejo streetscape on W Cushing Street |
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Buteo platypterus/Broad-winged Hawk? |
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124 W Cushing Street,
Sonoran row house with metal rainspouts |
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Decorated metal rainspout |
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Ferrin House (1860s adobe structure with store added in 1880s)
at 198 W Cushing Street |
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Teatro Carmen (1915, designed by Manuel Flores
in Sonoran Mission style) at 348 S Meyer Avenue;
founded by Carmen Soto de Vásquez |
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Prairie dog posts at 343 S Meyer Avenue |
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Gate at 343 S Meyer Avenue |
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Carrillo School (1930, designed by Merritt Starlweather)
at 440 S Main Ave |
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El Tiradito Shrine (1871) at 356 S Main Street |
El Tiradito Shrine is dedicated to a sinner buried in unconsecrated ground as a tragic result of a love triangle. Prayers are said to save his soul from purgatory, and also for any lost loved ones.
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El Tiradito Shrine |
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A view of the 'A' on Sentinel Peak from downtown |
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'A' of Sentinel Peak/'A' Mountain |
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Jacome Art Panel depicting the arrival of the Spanish;
it once was displayed at the Jacome Department store;
relocated here next to the Convention Center
when the store was demolished in 1970s |
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Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House (1850s or 1970s,
Sonoran row house) was home to General John C Fremont
when he was Territorial Governor of Arizona in 1878;
at 151 S Granada Avenue |
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Fig tree from 1700s in Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House courtyard |
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Tucson Music Hall (1971) |
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La Placita (1970s, Sonoran-style row houses)
at W Broadway Boulevard and S Church Avenue |
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EarthHeart (2005) by Chris Tanz |
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La Placita |
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La Placita |
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Replica of 1800 gazebo,
where the stagecoach would arrive |
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Sun Link Streetcar stop art,
Untitled by Joe Tyler |
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Statue of Francisco "Pancho" Villa
(1981 gift from Mexico)
in Veinte de Agosto Park |
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Homeless in Veinte de Agosto Park |
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