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Roy Place (1887 – 1950) was a Tucson, Arizona architect. Born in San Diego in 1887, Place moved to Tucson in 1917 after working in Chicago and the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge . Place partnered with John Lyman in 1919, together constructing over 20 buildings in Tucson.
The Plaza Theater was the crowning jewel of 1920s development on West Congress Street in Tucson and the only indoor Spanish language theater in Southern Arizona.The theater was designed by renowned local Tucson architect Roy Place in 1930 for A. Kaufman a local commercial developer and pioneer merchant and leased to Los Angeles theater operator Joe Gross.
The Pioneer Hotel, designed by Tucson architect Roy Place, was one of Tucson's first high-rise buildings. Opened in 1929, the Spanish Revival hotel became the social center of the downtown business district. The property catered to the social elite. [2]
It was designed by Roy Place in 1928 in Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture. [ 3 ] The building previously housed the Pima County Superior Court (1930–1977) and later, the Pima County Consolidated Justice Court (1977–2015), which handled lower-level state criminal matters and small claims cases.
The historic Tucson High School (designed by Roy Place in 1924) was featured in the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love. The Arizona Inn (built in 1930) and the Tucson Botanical Gardens are also in Central Tucson. Tucson's largest park, Reid Park, is in midtown and includes Reid Park Zoo and Hi Corbett Field.
Arizona State Museum (South Building) Roy Place: The now-South Building of the Arizona State Museum combines Italian and Spanish Romanesque Revival elements. 1920: Cochise Hall: Lyman & Place: A symmetrical Classical Revival dormitory dominated by its elevated six-column prostyle Corinthian portico. 1913: Arizona Hall: D.H. Holmes
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Tucson Mall is the largest shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona.Tucson Mall features over 170 stores and two levels of indoor shopping. It is anchored by Forever 21 (formerly Mervyn's), J. C. Penney, Macy's (formerly Foley's and Robinsons-May), and Dillard's (formerly Diamonds).