Bojorquez House, 459 South Convent Avenue, Tucson

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With its newly shingled hipped roof, this structure dominates the row of dwellings among which it is located. An Early Transitional adobe row house, it displays Anglo influence through its roof shape and gabled dormer vent, hut retains the Traditional S'onoran Building characteristics of a flush front and contiguity with its neighbors. Prior, to being converted for use as a dwelling, the structure'housed a family- owned grocery store from the to the PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History : 1. Date of erection: circa ~" 2. Architect: none known. 3. Original and subsequent owners: See chain of title below: Block Lot 5, arb. 28: Deed, March 21, recorded in Volume 32, page 11. Corporate Authorities of the Village of Tucson to Jesus B. Tallmadge.

Deed, September 26, recorded in Volume 52, page Estate of Jesus B. de Tallmadge to Antonio Zubiate. Deed, September 2, recorded in Volume page Antonio Zubiate to La2aro Romero. Deed, October lt recorded in Volume page Estate of Lazaro Romero to Dolores Mercado de Romero. Deed, August 5, recorded in Volume page Alfonso Romero et al to Ernestine M. Romero. Deed, September 20, recorded in Volume page Estate of Dolores Mercado de Romero to Ernestine M. Romero. # BOJORQUEZ HOUSE, 459 S. C2XVENT AT^ HABS No. AZ-73-4 (Page 3> Deed, July 14, recorded in Volume page 2 ^t Romero et al to Quillea- Deed, February 9, 197a, recorded in Volume page Quillen to Romero. Deed, January 21, recorded in Volume page -l; <i. E. M. Romero to D. Jarvis. ** Deed, May 25, recorded in Volume page D. Jarvis to J, L.

Jarvis. 4. Builder; Juan Bojorques. 5. Alterations and additions-: A frame porch, addition to" ^he rear cr this dwelling between and has teen the only* ^sodif icatLc^ to the exterior of the structure* From the late 193fe ~o the IS^Q^ & the northern two-thirds of the building housed a grof^tv store i^ the southern portion served as living quarters. B. Historical Persons and Events Connected with the Structu^-^ Until this structure remained in the hands of two l^^e families that were long-time residents of the Barrio Libre. This ^^operty was first owned by Jesus Tallmadge, whose brother, Juan BojoPS^iea, an g^^ ter, Belen Lubiate, both occupied the dwelling between b#c^een s~^ In the Romero family took over the property.

Xasaro Rot^^^-v the patriarch of the family, was a barber in Tucson from ZLS/O to His daughter Emma Romero Fimbres lived only two houses aV^y at 459 : Convent Ave. , and another daughter, Dolores, ran a grocer store at ^& house from the to the In the property passed froznT the Romero family to a new owner. PART IX. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION [No separate architectural data. See Barrio Libre, HABS No for the historical essay, PART IV,] PART III. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Tract Books, Pioneer National Title Insurance Company. Tucson City Directories, Building Slip, Pima County Assessor's Office. Arizona Historical Society, clip books (Lazaro Romero). Sanborn Fire Insurance Haps, Oral Interviews: .Adelina Flores: 56 W. Kennedy St. BOJORQUEZ HOUSE, 459 S. CONVENT AVE. HA3S No.

AZ-73-4 (Page 3) 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 CNAER) 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 (Professor 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 Architect Scott Marshall Dolph (University of Arizona) ; Carol Jean Lemon (Washington State Uni- versity) ; and Harrison Adam Sutphin (.Virginia Tech) ; ana" 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, Photog- rapher, 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.