Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 16 A-B (Duplex), 30652 & 30654 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-U, with a 1,132-word written history.
“Building 16 A-B, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the We1lton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-U survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-U · the record runs 1132 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-U. 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 16 A-Bis 1 of 22 residential buildings arranged in a horse- shoe-shaped plan on Wellton-Mohawk Drive, located approximately one-half mile north oflnterstate 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 16 A-B, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the We1lton-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 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 16 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-U (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 16 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 11 x each. Building 16 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 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 supporting the porch coverings. The north (rear) facade is also symmetrical with off-center en- trances for each half of the duplex. A pair of stepped, concrete stoops provide access to the rear entrances. 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, Unit A is cooled by a refrigeration unit mounted on a concrete pad on the east facade. Exterior ductwork connects the unit to the building's duct system.
Unit B was also served by an evaporative cooler; however, at the time the building was evaluated, the equipment had been removed, .and the duct system had been covered by a wood board. As originally constructed, the front and rear entrances to Building 16 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 may have been constructed at this time. Originally, there were 26 616 wood-sash, double-hung windows on the building's facades. All eight windows on the south (front) facade and four windows on the north (rear) facade are of the original 6/6 double-hung type.
Three of the original window openings on the west side of the building have been closed and covered with siding. All other original windows have been replaced with newer aluminum- frame windows. There are 23 windows on the facades. On the south (front) facade, the eastern entrance is covered by a wood-frame screen door; and the western entrance is covered by a metal security-screen door. The exterior doors are not original. Building 16 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 Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 16 A-B (Duplex) HAER No. AZ-68-U (page 3) buildings were used in the construction of the government camp at Well ton (Reclamation l 949a: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 Each half has approx- imately 680 square feet of living space, for an approximate total of square feet for the building. Documentation 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 evap- orative-cooling system. The cost to move, set up, and convert Building 16 was (Pfaff The exterior of Building 16 A-Bis in fair condition. III. REFERENCES CITED Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) l 949a 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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