Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 18 (House), 30632 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-W, with a 795-word written history.
“Building 18, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-W survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-W · the record runs 795 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-W. 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 18 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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Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-W. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Building 18, 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 18 (House) HAER No. AZ-68-W (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 18 (six-room residence, Type 6A) is a one-story frame, ranch-style house with a shingled, hip- ped roof; stucco exterior walls; and a concrete-slab foundation. There is no basement. The overall dimen- sions are x with a wing on the north (rear) facade that measures x The south (front) facade has an off-center entrance with a concrete sill covered by a simple, shingled porch hood. The south facade also has three multipane, metal-sash casement windows. The picture window at the west comer wraps around to the west facade. There are 14 multipane, metal-sash casement windows in use on the building's facades. The north (rear) facade has an off-center entrance with a concrete sill leading into a 120-square-foot utility room that juts out from the primary building mass.
There are two dormer vents on the west and north slopes of the roof. A dormer on the east slope of the roof has been altered by the installation of ductwork leading to an outside air-conditioning unit. As orig- inally constructed, the dormer received an elevated evaporative-cooling unit, which has since been re- placed by a ground-mounted air-conditioning unit and ductwork. The front entrance is covered by a metal security-screen door. A satellite dish is attached to the edge of the roof on the east facade. Six rooms make up the Type 6A residence: a living room, a dining room, three bedrooms, and a utility room. In addition, there is a kitchen and bath. The building has approximately square feet of living space.
Documentation for this report did not include visual inspection of the building's interior. Plan drawings for the permanent house, Type 6A, indicate the kitchen and bathroom floors were covered with asphalt tile and that the remaining interior floor surfaces consisted of finished concrete (Reclamation The interior ceilings and walls were plastered. Construction costs for this house were (Pfaff Despite several areas where the stucco has been repaired, the building's exterior is in good condition. Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building 18 (House) HAER No. AZ-68-W (page 3) III. REFERENCES CITED Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Wellton Government Camp, six-room residence Type 6A. 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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