486-490 South Meyer Avenue (Commercial), Tucson

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The "building, 486 S. Meyer Ave. , .ocated at the corner of S. Meyer Avenue and W. Kennedy'"Street, has been a grocery store since the Originally constructed as an adobe dwelling, it was remodeled and faced with "brick in the and/or The brick remodeling displays a definite Anglo influence, as does the addi- tion of the large store windows. The building is a dis- tinctive corner anchor for the row of two apartment blocks that adjoin it, beginning with and extending to (See HABS No. AZ-73-32.) PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: 189O-I89T 2. Architect: None known. 3. Original and subsequent owners: See chain of title below: Block Lot 1. Deed, April 1, recorded in Volume 21, page Sheriff of Pima County to Thomas Gill.

Deed, October 12, recorded in Volume 32, page Territory of Arizona to Thomas yill. Deed, April 29, recorded in Volume 56, page 4l. Estate of Thomas Gill to Anna Charouleau. Deed, May 8, recorded in Volume 93, page-132. Anna Charouleau to Wong Shee Ben. Deed, September 21, recorded in Volume page 49. Wong Shee Ben to Wong Wing Suey. SOUTH MEYER AVENUE (.Lucky1 s Market) HABS Ho. AZ-73-31 {.Page 2) Deed, July 11, recorded in Volume page Wong Wing Suey to Wong Fung (Lee Taw Wah). Deed, September 28, recorded in Volume page Wong to Beppler. Deed, September 28, recorded in Voi-ume page Beppler to Wong. -* Deed, July 30, recorded in SCP no. Estate of Fung Mong Poy Nam Wong. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page D. A. Rosen to L. T. Wah. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page L. T.

Wah to D. A. Rosen. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page P. N. Wong to L. T. Wah. h. Builder: Unknown. 5. Alterations and additions: This building was originally built for residential purposes and was remodeled before to' add more dwelling units. By the corner portion was being used as a Chinese grocery> and sometime before the exterior of the building was faced with brick, entirely modifying its appear-r ance. The structure, now #U86, may have been built with the adjoin- ing structure to the south, but remodeled separately9 so that they no longer appear to be part of the same structure. B.. Historical Persons and Events Connected with"-"Structure: The name of Thomas Gill is first associated with the ownership of this property.

Gill probably was responsible for the construction of this building, and may have operated a small grocery here. Gill himself lived in the building for a short period of time, but the first long- term name associated with the structure is that of Loreto Lopez who lived there from at least to and operated a fruit market. The next long-term tenant was the Gee Hung and Company Grocery, from until the The store has been known as Lucky's Market since the and has been owned by the Wong family since PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION (See Significance, above, and Barrio Libre (Barrio Historico) (HABS No. AZ-73) for site plan and historical background essay.) H86 SOUTH I-2Y3R AVENUE (Lucky1 s Market; HABS No. A2-73-31 (Page 3; FART III.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION Sanborn Fire Insurance Company maps, Tract Books, Pioneer National Title Insurance Company (Microfilm, Recorder's records). Tucson City Directories, I897-I979. Oral Interview: Adelina Flores, % W. Kennedy St. 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 (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 tlie summer of I98O 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 Herrison 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 (.Writ er/Edit or, of the HABS professional staff. ADDENDUM TO HABS No. AZ-73-31 SOUTH MEYER AVENUE (COMMERCIAL) (LUCKY1S MARKET) Barrio Libre (Barrio Historico) South Meyer Avenue Tucson , Pima County M Arizona iVw-i , XEROGRAPHIC COPIES OF COLOR TRANSPARENCIES HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington,