477 South Meyer Avenue (House), Tucson

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A flat-roofed adobe structure on the northeast corner of S. Meyer Avenue and W. Kennedy Street, this building provides a good example of the chamfered corner found on many of the corner commercial buildings in the Barrio Libre..,. The cor- ner portion of the building housed a grocery store since the while the attached dwellings were used both as residences and small family businesses. The structure is set flush with the street in the Sonoran tradition, and has no identifiable Anglo elements. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: 2. Architect: None known. 3. Original and subsequent owners: See chain of title below. Block Lot k, arb. 11, Deed, August 27, recorded in Volume Ik, page Teresa Salazar to Don Yan.

Deed, May 17, recorded in Volume 23, page Estate of Jose Salazar to Don Yan. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume 26, page Don Yan to Chan Tin Wo. iiT7 SOUTH MEYER AVENUE/ WEST KENNEDY STR3ET HABS No. AZ-73-23 (Page 2) Deed, January 7, recorded in Volume 27, page Chan Tin Wo and Fanny Chan to Don Yan. Deed, September 2h, recorded in Volume h2, page Sheriff to Don Chun Wo and Don Yan. Deed, January 12, recorded in Volume 79, page Don Yan and Ong She and Don Chun Wo and Lai She to Gee Lung and Gee Shuey. Deed, January 23, recorded in Volume page 6, Gee Shee to Gee Shue Chee. Deed, July 19, recorded in Volume page Estate of Gee Lung to Gee Shue Chee {h interest). Deed, July 19, recorded in Volume page Estate of Fong Shee to Gee Shue Chee.

Deed, August 26, recorded in Volume page Gee Shue Chee to Lin Fung Choon. Deed, December 5, recorded in Volume page Gee S. Chee and Lin Fung Choon to Fung Wong and Lee Lew Wan, Deed, September 28, recorded in Volume page Wong to Beppler. Deed, September 28, recorded in Volume page Beppler to Wong. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page D. A. Rosen to L. T. Wan. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page L. T. Wah to D. A. Rosen. k. Builder: Unknown. 5. Alterations and additions: The corner section of this structure, used for commercial purposes, is the only part of the building "that has not been significantly altered. The two apartments to the east, on Kennedy, were used as a bakery during the and adobe bakehouses were added to the rear.

By the bakery had been con- verted to dwellings, and a frame porch added to the rear. Several apartment dwellings extended north along Meyer Avenue from the cor- ner store. These were demolished sometime after SOUTH MEYER AVENUE/ WEST KENNEDY STREET HABS No. AZ-73-23 (Page 3) PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION (See Significance, above, and Barrio Libre (Barrio Historico)(HABS No. AZ-73) for site plan and "background essay.) FART III. SOURCES OF INFORMATION A. Old views: S. Meyer Avenue looking north from W. Kennedy ca. (See Barrio Libre, HABS No. AZ-73, for view.) B.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Company maps, 19lU, Tract Books, Pioneer National Title Insurance"-Company (Microfilm, Recorder's records); Tucson City Directories, Prepared by: Ann E. Huston Project Historian, Maureen L. Gerhold Assistant Project Historian, Historic American Buildings Survey September 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 (NASR) in cooperation with the Tucson Barrio Association, In. 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 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. #