Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Permanent Garage Type 2-G, 30611 and 30621 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ. Surveyed as HAER AZ-68-CC, with a 633-word written history.
“This garage, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.”
Written record, HAER AZ-68-CC survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER AZ-68-CC · the record runs 633 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER AZ-68-CC. 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. This two-car garage is associated with Buildings 2 and 3, 2 of the 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 1'2 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-CC. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
This garage, 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 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 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, Permanent Garage Type 2-G HAER No. AZ-68-CC (page 2)
Physical History
See AZ-68-G for information pertaining to the physical history of the former Wellton Government Camp. II. BUILDING DESCRIPTION A detached, two-car garage (Type serves Buildings 2 and 3 (Bureau of Reclamation The garage has a wood-frame construction with a stucco exterior, a concrete-slab foundation, and a hipped roof with shingles. The footprint of the garage is x Two x roll-up doors are located on the south (rear) facade, facing the perimeter road. A wood-frame interior wall covered with sheetrock partitions the garage into two identical bays. As originally constructed, the garage had four Ill double-hung windows and two side doors. Two 111 double-hung windows on the nonheast and east facades have been replaced by horizontally sliding aluminum-frame windows.
The door on the west facade is wood with a 1/1 aluminum-frame window; it is not original. The door on the east facade is wood; it too is not original. As part of the original construction, the garage has a short (approximately 4') timber utility pole extending vertically from the northwest comer of the roof. A utility line extending from a pole positioned along the perimeter road provides electricity to the garage. The current condition of the garage's exterior is fair to good. III. REFERENCES CITED Bureau of Reclamation Wellton Government Camp, permanent garage Type 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.
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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