STATE OF ARIZONA ARIZONA HISTORICAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 1992/1993 DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVES & PUBLIC RECORDS ARLENE BANSAL, DIRECTOR ARIZONA HISTORICAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 1992/1993 coordinated by: Fran Simpson Administrative Assistant Arizona Department of Library, Archives & Public Records STATE OF ARIZONA ARIZONA HISTORICAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 1992/1993 DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVES & PUBLIC RECORDS ARLENE BANSAL, DIRECTOR ARIZONA HISTORICAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 1992-1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Commission Mandate .......................... ................................................................... 1 Commission Membership ........................................................................... ........... 2 Commission Meetings ............................................................................................. 2 Chair's Message ........................ ........................................... ...................................... 3 HISTORIC PRESERVATION A WARDS Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation ................................................... 4 Shar lot Hall Museum .... .............................. .... ... .... ........ ... ... ................ ................... 5 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS Historic Sites Review Committee.... .......... .. ................... .... ........ .. .. .. ... ................ .. 6 THE AMERIND FOUNDATION, INC................... ... ... ...... ... ........ .... .. .... .. ... .... .... ........ ... ..... ........ 7 STATE AGENCY HISTORIC PRESERVATION REPORTS Archaeological and Historical Society.......................................... .... ................... .. 7 Arizona Game and Fish Department............................................. .. ..................... 11 Commission on the Arts ... .. ... ................................... .. ...................... ....... .. .............. 11 Department of Administration General Services Division ........................................................................... 12 Department of Commerce........................................... ............................................ 13 Department of Economic Security .......................................... .. ....................... ...... 14 Department of Emergency and Military Affairs ................................. ................. 14 Department of Library, Archives and Public Records Museum Division ....... .... .... .. .... ................ ...... ................................. ..... ........ 16 Department of Mines and Mineral Resources .... .... ..... .... .... ... ............... .... .... ..... 16 Department of Transportation................................................................................ 17 Historical Society............... ............................. .. ... .......................................... .. ...... .. ... 18 State Land Department ............................................................................................. 22 State Parks.................................. ........ ... .. ............................. ............... ..... ... ..... ........ .... 25 State Historic Preservation Office ........................................................................... 25 Office of Tourism ................................ ....................................................................... 52 STATE UNIVERSITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION REPORTS Arizona State University .............. ........... .. ....................................... ....................... 53 Northern Arizona University ................................. ............ .. .. .... ........................... 54 University of Arizona ............................................................................ ................... 56 College of Agriculture (University of Arizona) ...................................... 58 AGENCIES WHICH DID NOT SUBMIT REPORTS. ........ ... .............. ........ ................. ................... 59 INTRODUCTION ARIZONA HISTORICAL ADVISORY COMMISSION MANDATE Statutes that define the responsibilities of the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission (AHAC) are located in A.RS. §41-861 et. seq. the State Historic Preservation Program. A.RS. §41-1352 (C) (5) (1982), directs the Commission to: • Advise the legislature and state agencies on historic preservation matters; • Recommend measures to the legislature and state agencies to coordinate or improve the effectiveness of historic preservation activities of state agencies and agencies of the political subdivisions of this state and other persons involved in historic preservation; • Advise the legislature and state agencies on dissemination of information about historic preservation activities; • Encourage, in cooperation with appropriate public and private agencies and other persons, historic preservation training and education; • Submit a report to the Governor and the legislature annually. The report must include the performance of state agencies in their historic preservation activities; • Maintain a Historic Sites Review Committee as mandated by State and National Historic Preservation Acts that is appointed by the State Historic Preservation Officer to provide advice and to review nominations to State and National Registers. Membership on the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission may vary from ten to not more than twenty persons who have expertise in historic preservation, the disciplines of history, architecture and archaeology; also librarians, archivists and others involved in interpretation, research, writing or teaching of the State's heritage. Statutory commissioners include the Directors of the Arizona Historical Society, the State Museum and the State Parks and the State Historic Preservation Officer. The Director of the Department of Library, Archives and Public Records appoints other members of the Commission for staggered, three-year terms. 1 1992-1993 COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP James E. Ayres, Chair Kenneth R. Kimsey, Vice Chair Historic Consultant U.S.D.A. Forest Service Arlene Bansal, Ex Officio Secretary, Department of Library, Archives & Public Records LeRoy Brady, Manager Don Ryden Roadside Development Services Ryden Architects Department of Transportation Shelley Cohn, Executive Director Susan Spater Arizona Commission on the Arts Pimeria Alta Historic Society James Garrison Philip M. Thompson, Chair State Historic Preservation Officer W.C.D., Inc. (Construction) Mac R. Harris, Director Raymond Thompson, Director Prescott Historical Society Arizona State Museum Robert A. Larkin, Consultant Kenneth Travous, Director Louis Berger & Associates Arizona State Parks Richard E. Lynch Robert A. Trennert Richard E. Lynch & Associates Arizona State University William H. Mullane Michael Weber, Executive Director Northern Arizona University Arizona Historical Society Elisabeth F. Ruffner Anne Woosley Historic Preservation Consultant Amerind Foundation MEETINGS The Commission met as follows: August 21, 1992 - Sharlot Hall Museum - Prescott November 19, 1992 - The Department of Library, Archives & Public Records February 18, 1993 - The Department of Library, Archives & Public Records May 13, 1993 - The Department of Library, Archives & Public Records 2 CHAIR'S MESSAGE July 1993 By James E. Ayres Continuing difficult economic conditions have led to additional budget reductions and further staff shortages that have resulted in uncertainty and confusion within many state agencies and institutions over the past year. In general, these conditions continue to have an adverse effect on history and historic preservation activities at every level within the state. Those entities responsible for promoting, teaching, researching, protecting, and preserving Arizona's history and historic resources, while having an increasingly difficult time of meeting their respective mandates, are, nonetheless, achieving some successes as witnessed by their annual reports included herein. The Arizona Historical Advisory Commission (AHAC) annual report for fiscal year 1992-1993 provides an overview of the most important of the many outstanding and varied programs and activities related to the broad subject of history and historic preservation in the State of Arizona. This report, our 12th, is submitted as mandated by A.RS. §41-1352 (c) (5) (1982). In addition to promoting the study of Arizona's history and supporting historic preservation generally, AHAC is assisting the Arizona Department of Transportation with its Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (!STEA) program of transportation enhancement funding. One historic preservation program reported by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is the Arizona Heritage Fund which has reached its stride. This funding program is supported by money from the Arizona Lottery, and is administered by the SHPO to promote the understanding and preservation of Arizona's historic resources. The 70-30 and 60-40 matching grants have proven to be very successful, not only in helping to preserve part of our past, but in helping to stabilize and unite neighborhoods and communities throughout the state. The economic impact of the grants is much larger than their dollar amount; they create demand for skilled labor and otherwise provide employment for individuals with a wide variety of training and experience. Many communities in Arizona have benefitted from this program. In January 1993, Sharon G. Womack, Director of the Department of Library, Archives and Public Records,