There has been some really great progress made thus far on the Barrio Viejo National Historic Landmark Project. The Fieldwork team who are uploading architectural data has surveyed the entire neighborhood with the exception of the Barrio Santa Rosa extension. The Fieldwork volunteers are going...
This past week was a capstone to all the work we have accomplished in the span of this Barrio Viejo National Historic Landmark Project. We organized a thank you event to extend our gratitude to the crowd-sourced project volunteers at the downtown Tucson Hotel Congress....
So far this week with only three days in, there has been two meetings, an interview, and I also held a workshop designed for the volunteers on the Barrio Viejo National Historic Landmark (NHL) project. My early Monday morning meeting was with Carol Beidleman from...
There are three divisions of volunteers who comprise our effort to gain National Historic Landmark status for Tucson's old quarter, the Barrio Viejo. One division - the fieldwork - is recording the architectural details of each and every building in the quarter. This data is...
Its been yet another busy week with temperatures reaching 115 degrees - but it's a dry heat! My supervisors representing the National Park Service, University of Arizona, and the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, as well as myself and counterpart Magda, had the official neighborhood meeting...
I was fortunate to be able to attend a workshop focused on the building blocks of the structures we are studying and surveying in the Barrio Viejo of Tucson. Those literal building blocks are adobe mud-bricks. The workshop was led by Jim Garrison, the former...
The centigrade is rising here in the Sonoran Desert of Baja, or lower Arizona, and we are deep in the first phase of the process of doing the legwork to acquire the National Historic Landmark (NHL) designation for Tucson's historic quarter, the Barrio Viejo. ...
[caption id="attachment_9892" align="alignnone" width="169"] Statue of a Leather Jacketed Solider or Soldado de Cuera of the Spanish Presidio of San Agustin de Tucson founded in 1776 by an Irish Spanish Military Officer Hugo O'Conor[/caption] I'm working on an incredible project for the National Park...
Hi everyone, my name is Alex La Pierre and I am the Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) intern for the Urban Agenda in Tucson through Saguaro National Park. I currently attend the University of Arizona and I have been a seasonal employee...