Archie Morrison Rental House, 182 Frisco Street, Clifton

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This house is typical of rental houses constructed in Clifton between about and Description: This house follows National Folk precedents of the "Gable-front" substyle. It is a one-story wood framed house with a front-facing gable roof. Additions have been made to each side of the house, obscuring the original form. Exterior materials include wood siding on the walls, and corrugated metal roofing. Most of the windows appear to have been replaced with aluminum sliding units, although a few original wooden double-hung two-over-one windows remain. A central entry porch is constructed of modern materials. A wooden porch on the back is either original or a sensitive replacement.

History: This frame dwelling was a rental house constructed between and by Arizona Copper Company concentrator foreman Archie Morrison (for additional information on Morrison see HABS No. AZ-170). The plat map of Morrison's Addition indicates that the property was sold to G.A. Wagstaff by but by the Arizona Copper Co. base map notes it as Morrison's rental property, in later years the property was owned by the William F. and Yolanda Hagan family and used as a rental.1 Sources (endnotes): Sanborn Fire Insurance map; Arizona Copper Company base map; plat map of Mr. A. Morrison's Addition dated February 5, on file with the Greenlee County Recorder's Office; interview with Harriet Sweeting, December