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Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, US, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County. A museum is located in the old Douglas Mansion.
The Douglas Mansion was built in 1916 and is located in Little Daisy Street. [ 29 ] The Hotel Connor was built in 1898 and is located on the intersection of Main Street and Jerome Ave. [ 29 ] [ 31 ]
The Douglas Mansion in Jerome. In 1912, Douglas returned to central Arizona, where he took an option on the United Verde Extension (UVX) property, a speculative venture to find the down-faulted extension of the great "United Verde" ore body near Jerome, Arizona. In 1914, with funds near exhaustion, an exploration drift cut bonanza copper ore ...
The historic district encompasses most of the built area within the town's municipal limits, as well as mining-related resources outside those limits, and the Douglas Mansion, the centerpiece of Jerome State Historic Park. The community retains much of the look and feel of an early 20th-century mining town, with buildings perched along the ...
In 1962, James Douglas's heirs donated the Douglas mansion, above the UVX mine site, to the State of Arizona, which used it to create Jerome State Historic Park. [33] By sponsoring music festivals, historic-homes tours, celebrations, and races, the community attracted visitors and new businesses, which in the 21st century include art galleries ...
Douglas Residential Historic District – Roughly bounded by 12th St., Carmelita Ave., 7th St., and East Ave. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986, reference #86002095. [11] Douglas Sonoran Historic District – U.S. Route 80 under Southern Pacific railroad tracks at milepost 366.1. Listed in the National Register ...
This is a list of historic properties in Bisbee, Arizona, which includes a photographic gallery of some of the town's historic structures.The majority of these structures are located in the Bisbee Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1980, reference #80004487.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]