488-498 South Meyer Avenue (Apartments), Tucson

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U88 ^98 S. Meyer Ave., Tucson, Pima County, Arizona USGS Tucson Quadrangle, Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: -35639TO Present Owners: Lee Tew Wan and Billy Wong (Also owners of Lucky's Market, adjoining.) Present Occupants A90 Luisa Green Francisco Diaz Vacant Victoria Garcia A98 Vacant

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This row of adobe Mission Revival style apartments is set flush with the street and adjoins.the "buildings on either side of it in the Sonoran tradition. The s'culptured par- apet and vent openings add a decorative element to the otherwise plain exterior. The structure contributes to the planar qualities of the South Meyer Avenue streetscape 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 2i+2, Lot 1. I89O Deed, April 1, recorded in Volume 21, page Sheriff of Pima County to Thomas Gill. Deed, October 12, recorded in Volume 32, page 380 Territory of Arizona to Thomas Gill. Deed, April 29, recorded in Volume 56, page ^1 Estate of Thomas Gill to Anna Charouleau.

Deed, May 8, recorded in Volume 93, page Anna Charouleau to Wonc Shee Ben. SOUTH MEYER AVENUE HABS No. AZ-73-32 (Page 2) Deed, September 21, recorded in Volume page Wong Shee Ben to Wong Wing Suey. Deed, July 11, recorded in Volume page Wong Wing Suey to Wong Fung (Lee Tav Wan). Deed, September 28, recorded in Volume page Wong to Beppler. Deed, September 28, recorded in Volume page Beppler to Wong. Deed, July 30, recorded in SCP no. Estate of Fung Mong Pay Nam Wong. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page D. A. Rosen to L. T. Wan. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page L. T. Wan to D. A. Rosen. Deed, October 21, recorded in Volume page P. N. Wong to L. T. Wan. k. Builder: Unknown. 5.

Alterations and additions: This block of apartments may have been constructed as part of the adjoining building to the north, at U86 S. Meyer Ave. , known as Lucky's Market. Early Sanborn maps show the two structures as having common widths. It appears as though the apartments were eigher rebuilt or remodeled after to create more dwelling units and to extend them farther to the rear. The two buildings no longer appear to have been built as one. (See I486 S. Meyer Ave., AZ-73-31.) B. Historical Persons and Events Connected with the Structure: From .the time of their-construction, to the present, these apartments have housed a large number of short-term,Spanish-speaking, working- class tenants. PART II.

ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION (.See Significance, above, and Barrio Libre (Barrio Historico) (HABS No. AZ-73) for site plan and historical background essay.) 400-MyO DUUXfl JYiklJ^H KVi^U EABS Wo. AZ-73-32 (? ge 3) PART III. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Sanbom Fire Insurance Company maps, 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 I98O PART IV.

PROJECT INFORMATION The project was undertaken by the Historic American Buildings Survey (EABS) 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 EABS, 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.

flB 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 Arric (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, Hew Mexico.

Editing and final preparation of the documenta- tion was carried out in I98I in the EABS Washington Office by William Joseph Graham, Architect, and Lucy Pope Wheeler, Writer/Editor, of the HABS professional staff. # ADDENDUM TO HABS No. AZ-73-32 SOUTH MEYER AVENUE (APARTMENTS) Barrio Libre (Barrio Historico) Tucson si Pima County J Arizona JO'TOCSt XEROGRAPHIC COPIES OF COLOR TRANSPARENCIES HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, ,