Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 12 A-B (Duplex), 30692 & 30694 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-Q, with a 1,147-word written history.
“Building 12 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-Q survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-Q · the record runs 1147 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-Q. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
and Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (WMIDD) administrative complex, Wellton, Yuma County, Arizona. Building 12 A-B is 1 of 22 residential buildings arranged in a horse- shoe-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 12 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 district 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 12 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-Q (page 2)
Physical History
See AZ-68-G for information pertaining to the physical history of the former Well ton Government Camp. II. BUILDING
Description
Building 12 A-B (four-room residence, duplex, Type 4D) is a one-story, wood-frame, rectangular duplex set on a 6"-wide concrete foundation. Concrete piers set inside the foundation and spaced at inter- vals support the floor joists. The building is clad with horizontal wood siding and covered by a shingled, side-gabled roof. Exposed rafter ends are visible beneath the extended eaves. Louvered openings at the gable ends ventilate the attic space. The south (front) facade is symmetrical, with the two entrances at the center sharing a porch overhang. The north (rear) facade has .two entrances at the center. There are two foundation vents on the east and west facades.
The overall dimensions of the primary building mass are x with a wing on the north (rear) facade that measures x The wing has a low- pitched, shingled roof. Originally, the front porch entry was constructed of wood with simple, square wood posts supporting the porch covering. A stepped, concrete stoop has replaced the wood porch entry and the support posts have been replaced by thin, metal rods set in the concrete stoop. Similarly, the original wood steps on the north (rear) facade have been replaced with concrete steps. Building 12 A-B has an open porch addition on the northwest facade that consists of a concrete pad and a porch covering supported by two wood columns. The concrete pad measures x The porch covering has a low pitch and is covered with roll- roofing material.
On December 30, the Adams Construction Company was awarded a contract for remodeling some of the buildings at the camp (Pfaff The current south (front) and north (rear) porch entries, and the covered porch addition may have been constructed under this contract. As originally constructed, the duplex was outfitted with two elevated evaporative-cooling units on the east and west facades. These units were replaced by ground-mounted air-conditioning units connected to the building by exterior ductwork. Two heating vents and four plumbing vents extend upward from the roof. Plan drawings for the Type 4D temporary residence show a total of 22 6/6 double-hung windows on the building's facades (Reclamation 1949a).
Building 12 A-B is one of four Type 4D temporary structures erected at Wellton Government Camp; however, a careful study of the building's exterior revealed that the building was constructed with- out windows on the east and west facades of the utility rooms. Currently, there are 17 1/1 aluminum- frame windows in use on the original building's facades. One of the original windows on the rear (north) facade of Unit A has been filled in with horizontal wood siding. The front entrances are covered by metal security-screen doors. The exterior doors on the north and south facades are not original. Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 12 A-B (Duplex) HAER No.
AZ-68-Q (page 3) This duplex 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 train- ing base for aviation cadets. At the end of the war, the base was deactivated, and in Reclamation acquired both real and personal property at the inactive facility for use on its projects. Some of the build- ings were used in the construction of the government camp at Wellton (Reclamation Each half of the Type 4D residence has four rooms: a living room, two bedrooms, and a utility room. In addi- tion, there is a kitchen and bath. Total square footage for the duplex is (Reclamation 1949a). Docu- mentation for this report did not include visual inspection of the building's interior.
Pfaff ( pre- viously described the remodeled, temporary, two-bedroom duplex as having wood floors covered with salvaged linoleum, plasterboard interior walls, new linoleum countertops, Venetian blinds, and an evap- orative-cooling system. The cost to move, set up, and convert Building 12 A-B was (Pfaff The exterior of the duplex is in fair condition. III. REFERENCES CITED Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) 1949a Wellton Government Camp, temporary residence Type 4D. 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. 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. 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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