Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 14 A-B (Duplex), 30672 & 30674 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-S, with a 1,116-word written history.
“Building 14 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-S survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-S · the record runs 1116 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-S. 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 14 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 14 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 Well ton 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 14 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-S (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 14 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 north (rear) facade that measure x each. Building 14 is 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 south (front) facade is symmetrical, and each half of the duplex has an entrance that is flanked by a pair of windows. Both entrances have a simple porch covering, which is by thin, metal rods set in a concrete stoop.
The original stoops were constructed of wood with square, wood columns supporting the porch coverings. The north (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.
Building 14 has an open porch addition on the north (rear) facade, between the utility room wings, that consists of a concrete pad and a porch covering supported by a single wood column. The concrete pad measures x The porch covering has a low pitch and is covered with shingles. As originally constructed, the front and rear entrances to Building 14 had wood stoops. On December 30, the H. P. Adams Construction Company was awarded a contract for remodeling some of the build- ings at the camp (Pfaff The concrete stoops and the current south (front) porch supports and the north (rear) porch addition may have been constructed at this time. There are 26 windows on the building's facades. All are the original 6/6 wood-sash, double-hung windows.
On the south facade, the western entrance is covered by a wood-frame screen door. Building 14 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 Well ton (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 (Reclamation l ).
Each half has approximately 680 square feet of living space, for an approximate total of square feet for the building. Documen- Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 14 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-S (page 3) tation for this report did not include visual inspection of the building's interior. Pfaff previously described the remodeled, temporary, 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 14 was (Pfaff The current condition of Building 14 A-B's exterior is poor. Maintenance of the exterior has been ne- glected, resulting in the peeling of paint and the disappearance of trim elements.
This is particularly evident on the west and south facades. 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. l Wellton Government Camp, temporary residence Type 3D. 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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