Arizona Copper Company, Smelter Blower House & Shed, West of Frisco Street, Clifton, Greenlee County, AZ. Surveyed as HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9A-, with a 405-word written history.
“Associated with the Arizona Copper Company smelter as one of two remaining buildings of the smelter complex.”
Written record, HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9A- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9A- · the record runs 405 words · one of 41 surveyed structures published for this county.
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Associated with the Arizona Copper Company smelter as one of two remaining buildings of the smelter complex. Description: Typical of industrial buildings, the Blower House has a utilitarian appearance. The tall, singie-story steel building sits on a concrete slab foundation. The roof is gabled. The structure is sheathed in corrugated metal. Wooden vents appear at the gable ends. Wood sash windows appear at each end of the building. A large garage-type door is located at the south side of the building with a concrete ramp leading up to it. The word "Texaco" is painted in large letters above the garage door. A wood-framed corrugated metal outbuilding is placed adjacent to the Blower House on the east side. Its exterior appearance is similar to the main building.
History: This frame and corrugated metal building was constructed in It housed the giant blowers which were used to force air through the furnaces at the smelter to stoke the fires and to blow the smoke resulting from the process through an exhaust tunnel excavated in the mountain behind the smelter. After the construction of a new smelter south of Clifton in the building was used as the bulk storage plant for the Texaco oil company. It was first owned by Minor Simms and subsequently by his son Marshall Simms.1 Sources (endnotes): Robert G.
Graham, "Clifton Townsite Historic District Nomination,' manuscript on file at the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, Phoenix, January 24, interview with Al Fernandez, December Bill Conger "Old Arizona Copper Company Smelter," Morend Copper Review (May 7. ARIZONA COPPER COMPANY SMELTER, BLOWER HOUSE AND SHED(Texaco Products Building) HABS No. AZ-174-A (Page 2)
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Robert G. Graham, AIA, Ryden Architects, Historical Architect/Project Coordinator Douglas Kupel, Consulting Historian Ryden Architects 646 North 4th Avenue, Suite A Phoenix, AZ September, ARIZONA COPPER COMPANY SMELTER,
Blower House and She
DfTexaco Products Building) HABS No. AZ-174-A (Page 3)
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| Clifton, Arizona | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Greenlee County, Arizona | 72 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Clifton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Townsite | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,36- | 25,317 words | |
| Clifton Mineral Hot Springs Bath House | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,21- | 3,114 words | |
| Clifton Town Hall | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,35- | 2,702 words | |
| Park Avenue Bridge | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,11- | 2,597 words | |
| La Casa Grande | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,14- | 2,456 words | |
| Arizona and New Mexico Railway Passenger Station | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,34- | 1,665 words | |
| Henry H. Hill House | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,27- | 1,303 words | |
| Shannon Copper Company Store | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,25- | 1,220 words | |
| Arizona Copper Company | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9F- | 1,154 words | |
| Presbyterian Church | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,23- | 1,032 words | |
| J. C. Gatti House | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,24- | 1,022 words | |
| Becker-Franz Store & Addition | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,6- | 964 words | |
| Central Hotel | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,19- | 845 words | |
| Milk Depot | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,22- | 794 words | |
| Arizona Copper Company | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9C- | 766 words | |
| Hampton Block | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,17- | 713 words | |
| Arizona Copper Company | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9B- | 659 words | |
| Arizona Copper Company | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,9D- | 611 words | |
| Sam Abraham House | HABS ARIZ,G-CLIFT,12- | 577 words | |
| O. A. Risdon House | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,7- | 575 words | |
| Chase Creek Railroad Bridge | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,10- | 558 words | |
| Archie Morrison House & Outbuildings | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,5- | 525 words | |
| C. F. Pascoe Undertaking | HABS ARIZ,6-CLIFT,18- | 524 words | |
| Clifton Water and Improvement Company Building | HABS ARIZ,G-CLIFT,15- | 476 words |
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