Archie Morrison Rental House, 180 Frisco Street, Clifton

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This house is typical of rental houses constructed in Clifton between about and Description: This house is a one-story wood framed dwelling, which faces west to Frisco Street. It was built after the National Foik "Gable-front" pattern, which was common for inexpensively-built houses of the early part of the century. The original part of the house is quite smafl and narrow, including just one room. The front side features a veranda porch, an entry door, and two windows. Materials include horizontal wood siding on the wails and a corrugated metal roof. Windows are double-hung, with a one-over-one pattern. Additions have been made to one side and to the rear of the house, sheathed in board-and-batten siding.

The board-and-batten siding has also been used to re-sheathe the remaining side of the house. 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 retained by Morrison in and 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): 1. Sanbom 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