Lost Barrio: cacti faces and AirBnB furnishings
Tucked away in Barrio Antonio to the southeast of downtown, the Lost Barrio is a 3 block long, old brick warehouse that’s been converted into …
Category: architecture in Tucson
Visiting a cool historic train on a hot June day
This was the plan on a very hot June day: 1) Visit the Tucson Train Depot Museum because museums are air conditioned, cool and interesting. …
Historic 4th Avenue budget fashion, food, and broken hearts
The Spring and Fall Fourth Avenue Street Fairs are famous. I’d even heard of them in Los Angeles. But what does Fourth Ave. look like …
Breeze walls + whimsey near Mercado San Agustin
Across the Santa Cruz River from downtown the City of Tucson wiped out block after block of old homes some years ago, then in 2003 …
Ranching lives in the central Tucson Campus Farm neighborhood
During a recent discussion about potentially selling off the land at the University of Arizona’s Agricultural Center on Campbell Avenue a long-time resident described it …
(Not) historic San Pedro Chapel
I was driving across town a few days ago when I saw–obscured by a creosote forest–what was obviously a church of some kind, as you …
Behind Mercado San Agustin…a little bit of Italy?
They swept the ground down to bare earth in this old Menlo Park neighborhood, now called the Mercado District. Unlike in Barrio Viejo, all homes …
Where to make a New Year’s wish in Tucson
In Spanish it’s El Tiradito. In English, it’s The Castaway. And for decades it has been a place Tucsonans bring a candle and make a …
Painted Ladies gentrify historic Barrio Viejo
Just south of downtown Tucson is the Barrio Viejo which was built between the 1860s and the early 1900s by newcomers heading West after the …
Her quarantine is over!
Because of a family emergency, my niece flew from New York to Tucson three weeks ago to stay with me. My trip out to the …