Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 8 A-B (Duplex), 30671 & 30673 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-N, with a 1,063-word written history.
“Building 8 A-B, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-N survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-N · the record runs 1063 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-N. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
30671and30673 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (WMIDD) administrative complex, Wellton, Yuma County, Arizona. Building 8 A-B 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 1/z of the NE 114 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 .86 E
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Building 8 A-B, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wel- lton-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 irri- gation system, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Rec- lamation) built Wellton Government Camp to provide office space and housing for employees 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 complex is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a dis- trict under Criteria a and c (Thompson and Sterner The residential buildings 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 8 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-N (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 8 A-B (three-room residence, duplex, Type 3D) is a one-story, wood-frame, rectangular duplex resting on a 6"-wide concrete foundation. Concrete piers set inside the foundation and spaced at in- tervals support the floor joists. The overall dimensions of the building are x with two wings on the south (rear) facade that measure x each. Building 8 A-Bis clad with horizontal wood siding, and covered by a shingled, side-gabled roof with exposed rafter ends. There are two foundation vents on the east and west facades. The north (front) facade is symmetrical and each half of the duplex has an entrance flanked by a pair of windows. Both entrances have a simple porch covering, supported by thin metal rods set in a concrete stoop.
The original stoops were constructed of wood with square, wood columns for supporting the porch coverings. The south (rear) facade is also symmetrical with off-center entrances for each half of the duplex. A pair of stepped, concrete stoops provide access to the rear en- trances. There are louvered vents on the gables of the east and west facades. In the duplex had two evaporative-cooling units attached to the duct system on the east and west gable ends. Currently, the building is cooled by refrigeration units mounted on concrete pads on the east and west facades. Exterior ductwork connects the two units to the building's duct system. As originally constructed, the front and rear entrances to Building 8 A-B had wood stoops. On December 30, the H. P.
Adams Construction Company was awarded a contract for remodeling some of the buildings at the camp (Pfaff The concrete stoops and the current north (front) porch supports may have been constructed at this time. There are 26 windows on the building's facades. All original 6/6 wood-sash, double-hung windows have been replaced with 1/1 aluminum-frame windows. On the north facade, the western entrance is covered by a wood-frame screen door; the eastern entrance is covered by a metal security-screen door. The ex- terior doors on the south facade are not original. A satellite dish is attached to the northeast comer of the roof. Building 8 A-B 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 Reclama- tion acquired 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). Each half of the Type 3D temporary residence consists of three rooms: a living room, a bedroom, and a utility room. In addition, there is a kitchen/dinette and bath. The building has approximately 680 square feet of living space in each half, or an approximate total of square feet for the building (Reclama- tion Documentation for this report did not include visual inspection of the building's interior.
Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 8 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-N (page 3) Pfaff previously described the remodeled, temporary, four-room residence as having wood floors covered with salvaged linoleum, plasterboard interior walls, new linoleurri countertops, Venetian blinds, and an evaporative-cooling system. The cost to move, set up, and convert Building 8 was (Pfaff The current condition of Building 8 A-B's exterior is fair to good. 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 3D. Drawing U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma, Arizona. Drawing on file, Record Group Project Reports, Box National Archives and Records Administration, 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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