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To encourage tourism, the town's leaders sought National Historic Landmark status for Jerome; it was granted by the federal government in 1967. [58] 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 ]
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, Arizona. It was founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley to take advantage of copper deposits discovered in the 1870s whose extraction was made profitable by the arrival of a railroad spur nearby.
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 building, the city's third jail, was initially a part of a larger structure made from wood and tin. The jail, built in 1905, began sliding in 1938 when the shape of the mountain it sat on changed after it was blasted with dynamite. [2] It slid about 225 ft (69 m), tearing away from its original building.
The Jerome City Hall built c. 1890 and located on Main Street. [29] The Grand Hotel was built in 1926 as the United Verde Hospital and is located at 200 Hill Street. [33] The Jerome Palace built in the 1900s and located at 410 Clark Street is now home to the "Haunted Hamburger". [29]
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona. There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arizona, counting Hoover Dam that spans from Nevada and is listed in Nevada by the National Park Service (NPS), and Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites , which is listed by the NPS in Arizona, and overlaps into California.
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According to the Jerome, Arizona, Tourguide published by the Haven United Methodist Church in Jerome, the Civic Building was originally the Clark Street Elementary School, which closed in the early 1950s. Since then, the building has become home to City Hall, the Jerome Library, and the Jerome Humane Society. In the background is the Verde Valley.