Ahloy House, 492-494 South Convent Avenue, Tucson

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Residential; apartments. Signifi :ance: This Early Trans itiorkal adobe structure reveals its Anglo influences through its gabled roof and roof vent. The east addition once housed a family-run cafe which' has since been converted to a sacond dwelling unit. Set flush with the adjacent buildings, and contiguous to the structure on the south, it blends with the Convent Avenue streetscape. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History * *- 1. Date of erection: approximately 2. Architect: none known. 3. Original and subsequent owners: See chain of title below: Part of Lot 4, Block parcel 26. Deed, December 7, recorded in Volume 16, page Jennie Drachman to Candelario Ortego. Deed, June 21, recorded in Volume 64, page Candelario and Petra Ortega to Isabel and Manuel Aloy.

Deed, June 28, recorded in Volume page Isabel de Aloy [see section E for Ahloy] to Isabel F. Aloy, et al. Deed, January 2, recorded in Volume page Isabel E. Aloy, et al to Nicolas and Petra Trejo. Deed, Hay 2, recorded in Volume page Estate of Nicolas Trejo to Petra Trejo. Deed, April 6, recorded in Volume page City of Tucson to Petra Trejo. &H.LAJX GUUiL , o. *-. HABS No. (Page 2} Deed, April 12, recorded in Volume page Arnulfo Treho, et al to Luisa Trejo. Deed, May 2, recorded in Volume page Estate of Pe-tra Trejo et al to Luisa Trejo. 4. Builder; Manuel Ahloy. 5. Alterations and additions: In 492 and 494 Convent were^tvo separate dwellings. .

A rectangular adobe structure set flush with the street formed and 492 was an adobe and frame dwelling set 33 feet to the rear- The rear dwelling was gone by probably before In a long room was added along the north side of the residence to create a cafe dining room; the rooms at the rear of the dwelling were remodeled at the-same time. Today the structure houses two apartments, probably converted in the B. Historical Events and Persons Connected with the Structure: Manuel Ahloy, the. original owner and builder of this structure, was a Chinese cook- His wife was Mexican a daughter of the Escalante family who lived next door at S". Convent Ave, The Trejo family pur- chased the property from the Ahloys and added a long room to the north side of the house.

The Trejos ran a small cafe called "El Durango" in the north addition* The house has seen a number of occupants--"-since the Trejos:-moved out in the and converted the house and restaurant to two apartments. PAET XI. [No separate architectural data. See Barrio Libre, HABS No. AZ-73, historical essay, page 9.] TART III. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Sanborn Fire Insurance Company maps. Tract Books, Pioneer National Title Insurance Company. Tucson City Directories, Building Slip, Pima County Assessor's Office. Oral Interviews: Marxa Luisa Trejo: 624 N. Ave. Eliazar Herreras: E. "Waverly Frank Rivera: 479 S. Convent Ave. Adelina Flores: 56 W. Kennedy St. Prepared by: Ann Huston Project Historian Maureen L.

Gerhold Assistant Project Historian Historic American Buildings Survey September AHLOY HOUSE, S. .CONVENT .AVE, HABS No. A2-73-1 (Page 3) m PART IV. PROJECT INFORMATION This project was undertaken by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service's National Architectural and Engineering Record (NAER) in cooperation with the Tucson Barrio Association, Inc. Funds for the project were provided By the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office and the Arizona State Office of Economic Planning and Development. Under the direction of Robert Kapsch, Chief of NAER, John Poppeliers, Chief of HABS, and Kenneth L. Anderson, Principal Architect, the project was completed during the summer of at the HABS field office in Tucson, Arizona, by Robert C.

Giebner, Project Supervisor (Profess-or of Architecture, University of Arizona); William Joseph Graham, Project Foreman (University of Maryland); Ann E. Huston, Project Historian (California State University, Sacramento); Maureen L. Gerhold, Assistant Historian (Pennsylvania State University) ; Student Architects Scott Marshall Dolph (University of Arizona); Carol Jean Lemon (Washington State Uni- versity) ; and Harrison Adam Sutphin (Virginia Tech) ; and Comprehensive Employ- ment and Training Act (CETA) Summer Youth Employment Program Interns: Maria Arriola (Tucson High School); Ernest Cota; Lupita Lopez (Tucson High School); and Anna Trinidad. Photographic records were made for HABS by David J. Kaminsky, Photo- grapher, Roswell, New Mexico.

Editing and final preparation of the documentation was carried out in in the HABS Washington Office by William Joseph Graham, Architect, and Lucy Pope Wheeler, Writer/Editor, of the HABS professional staff.