Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 17 (House), 30642 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-V, with a 1,032-word written history.
“Building 17, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-V survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-V · the record runs 1032 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-V. 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 17 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 17, 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 head- quarters complex. Report Prepared by: Scott Thompson, Senior Historian Statistical Research, Inc. Tucson, Arizona Date: September Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 17 (House) HAER No. AZ-68-V (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 17 (four-room residence, Type SR) is a one-story, wood-frame, rectangular house with a front- gabled roofresting on a 6"-wide concrete foundation. Concrete piers set inside the foundation and spaced at intervals support the floor joists. The building is sheathed 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 south facade and one on the north facade. Louvered openings on the gables of the north and south facades provide ventilation for the attic space. Building 17 measures x with an interior space of approximately 900 square feet. The entrance on the south (front) facade is slightly off center.
Originally, the front entrance consisted of a wood stoop with simple, square, wood columns supporting the porch covering. When Pfaff evaluated Building 17, the structure had a simple porch covering supported by thin, metal poles set in a stepped, concrete stoop. At the time of this report, the building was unoccupied, and the original shed roof that covered the south (front) entrance and the corresponding concrete stoop had been removed. On the north (rear) facade, the entrance is off center with a stepped, concrete stoop. Metal security-screen doors cover the entrances. There are 11 windows in use on the building's facades. All original 6/6 double-hung windows, except one, have been replaced with 111 aluminum-frame win- dows.
The one remaining original window is located on the east facade. On the west facade, one of the original windows has been replaced with a small, horizontally sliding window. The remainder of the opening has been covered with wood siding. Building 17 was originally equipped with an elevated evaporative-cooling unit that connected to a duct system on the south gable end. This was subsequently replaced by a ground-mounted air-conditioning unit. At the time this building was evaluated, the air-conditioning unit had been removed, leaving partially attached exterior ductwork on the north facade. Building 17 was converted in l 9SO-l 9S l 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 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). The Type SR temporary residence consists of four rooms: a living room, two bedrooms, and a utility room. In addition, there is a kitchen and bath (Reclamation 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 evaporative-cooling system. The cost to move, set up, and convert Building 17 was $8, l 8S (Pfaff Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 17 (House) HAER No. AZ-68-V (page 3) The exterior of Building 17 is in fair to poor condition. The concrete stoop and porch covering on the south facade have been removed. In addition, wood trim around the attic space and the vent features is beginning to fail or has been removed. 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. 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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