Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 7 (House), 30661 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-M, with a 1,058-word written history.
“Building 7, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-M survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-M · the record runs 1058 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-M. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (WMIDD) administrative complex, Wellton, Yuma County, Arizona. Building 7 is 1 of 22 residential buildings arranged in a horseshoe-shaped plan on Wellton-Mohawk Drive, located approximately one-half mile north of Interstate 8. The building lies within the N 1h of the NE 1/4 of Section 4, Township 9 South, Range 18 West, on the Wellton Mesa, Arizona, 7.5-minute U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangle (photorevised Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: Zone 11, N E
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Building 7, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton- Mohawk irrigation system began in and was essentially completed in With its completion, Colorado River water was delivered to previously arid lands in the lower Gila River valley. Concomitant to construction of the irrigation tem, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) built Wellton Government Camp to provide office space and housing for em- ployees engaged in fieldwork associated with the irrigation project. Today, the headquarters of the WMIDD stand on the site of the camp offices, and the houses serve as residences for WMIDD employees.
The WMIDD administrative com- plex is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a district under Criteria a and c (Thompson and Sterner The residential build- ings have retained their integrity and contribute to the significance of the headquarters complex. Report Prepared by: Scott Thompson, Senior Historian Statistical Research, Inc. Tucson, Arizona Date: September Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 7 (House) HAER No. AZ-68-M (page 2)
Physical History
See AZ-68-G for information pertaining to the physical history of the former Wellton Government Camp. II. BUILDING
Description
Building 7 (four-room residence, Type SR) is a one-story, wood-frame, rectangular house with a front- gabled roof resting on a 6"-wide concrete foundation. Concrete piers set inside the foundation and spaced at intervals support the floor joists. Building 7 measures x with an interior space of ap- proximately 900 square feet. The building is clad with horizontal wood siding. The roof is shingled and the rafter ends are exposed beneath the extended eaves. There are two foundation vents on the north and south facades. The entrance on the north (front) facade is slightly off center. When Pfaff evaluated Building 7, the structure had a simple porch covering supported by thin, metal poles set in a stepped, concrete stoop.
Originally, the front entrance consisted of a wood stoop with simple, square wood columns supporting the porch covering. At the time of this report, the building was unoccupied, and the original shed roof covering the north (front) entrance and corresponding concrete stoop had been removed. On the south (rear) facade, the entrance is off center with a stepped, concrete stoop. There are louvered air vents on the gables of the north and south facades. As originally constructed, the front and rear entrances to Building 7 had wood stoops. On December 30, the Adams Construction Company was awarded a contract for remodeling some of the build- ings at the camp (Pfaff Ostensibly, the wood stoops were replaced by the concrete ones under this contract.
A metal security-screen door covers the north (front) entrance; the exterior doors are not original. There are 11 windows in use on the building's facades. All of the original 6/6 wood-sash, double-hung windows have been replaced with 1/1 aluminum-frame windows. Building 7 was originally equipped with an ele- vated evaporative-cooling unit that connected to a duct system on the south gable end. Ostensibly, the evaporative cooler was replaced by a ground-mounted air-conditioning unit. At the time of evaluation, the air conditioner had been removed leaving the exterior ductwork on the south facade. Building 7 was converted in from the barracks building sections moved from Yuma Army Air Field to the Wellton Government Camp site.
Yuma Army Air Field was activated in as a training base for aviation cadets. At the end of the war, the base was deactivated, and in Reclamation ac- quired both real and personal property at the inactive facility for use on its projects. Some of the buildings were used in the construction of the government camp at Wellton (Reclamation 1949a:22-23). The Type SR temporary residence consists of four rooms: a living room, two bedrooms, and a utility room. In addi- tion, there is a kitchen and bath. Documentation for this report did not include visual inspection of the building's interior (Reclamation Pfaff previously described the remodeled, temporary, Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 7 (House) HAER No.
AZ-68-M (page 3) four-room residence as having wood floors covered with salvaged linoleum, plasterboard interior walls, new linoleum countertops, Venetian blinds, and an evaporative-cooling system. The cost to move, set up, and convert Building 7 was (Pfaff The current condition of Building 7 is poor. There is significant damage to the exterior sheathing. Al- though the building appears to be structurally sound, the siding on the east side of the north facade and most of the building's east facade has been replaced with plywood sheeting. The sheeting coverage is incomplete, exposing large sections of the internal structural framing to the elements. III. REFERENCES CITED Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) 1949a Annual Project History, Gila Project, Yuma, Arizona, Vol. XIV. U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver. On file, Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Projects Office, Yuma, Arizona. Wellton Government Camp, temporary residence Type 5R. Drawing U.S. De- partment of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma, Arizona. Drawing on file, Record Group Project Reports, Box National Archives and Records Admin- istration, Rocky Mountain Region, Denver. Pfaff, Christine U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region: Historic Building Reconnaissance Survey. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Services Center, Denver. Thompson, Scott, and Matthew A. Sterner Inventory and Documentation of the Irrigation System of the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.
Technical Report Statistical Research, Tucson.
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