Globe, Arizona 25th annual Historic Home and Building Tour...
A day trip from Mesa, Arizona to Globe - just about one hour east from Mesa, this weekend - February 21 and 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Prices for admission: $15, $10 for ages 65 and older and 12 and younger.
For any of you who have been through Globe, Arizona, a copper mining 
town, it is full of history. The tour gives visitors a glimpse of how regular people in the tough old mining town once lived. There will be a tour of about six homes and a couple of Globe's landmark buildings and its recently refurbished train depot.
As you head east on the 60 through Superior and Miami, you arrive in Globe. It's a treat, albeit slow and winding roads, to travel this highway. Evident are the mining operations still happening, and these little mining towns are still happening.
As we travel to the White Mountains in May, I will make sure to stop to take and share some photos of the older homes and buildings that the highway, for the most part skips.
If you have a chance to go this weekend, there will be lots going on. There will be antiques and quit shows, pancake breakfast, a chili luncheon and more. For more details, call: 928.425-4495, or logon to globemiamichamber.com.
I've included an excerpt from Wikipedia here: Globe, Arizona 1917.
"The plans for an incorporated Globe were established in July 1876 with retail stores, banks, and Globe's first newspaper printing its first issue on May 2, 1878. By February 1881, Globe was the Gila County seat. Coming with Globe's new importance as the new county seat came a stage coach link linking it to Silver City, New Mexico.
Due to Globe's relative isolation from the rest of Arizona and it's proximity to the San Carlos Apache reservation, Globe remained a frontier town. Globe's history is laced with many historic events such as murders, stagecoach robberies, outlaws, lynchings, and Apache raids. Natiotish, a San Carlos Apache, left the reservation with a group of about 50 men and continued to attack ranchers and miners.
Globe is also known for having links to Geronimo and the Apache Kid. On October 23, 1889, the Apache Kid's trial was held in the Globe Courthouse. After he was convicted, it was the responsibility of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds to transport him to the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona. Sheriff Reynolds, his deputy, and their prisoners set out in an armored stagecoach holding the Apache Kid inside. Somewhere near present day Kearny, Arizona, Sheriff Reynolds let the Apache Kid out of the stagecoach seeing as they were on an uphill climb and he wanted to ease the burden on the horses. The Apache Kid was able to overcome and murder Sheriff Reynolds.
In 1884 the surviving Clanton brothers Ike and Phineas arrived in Apache County after the fight the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone. Ike was eventually killed by a local deputy sheriff, and Phineas, after serving prison time for a stage robbery, moved to Globe, where he died of pneumonia and was buried in 1906.
[edit] Historic buildings
Holy Angels Catholic Church
(Extant buildings in italics)
* Gila County Courthouse and Jail-four-story courthouse and adjacent three-story jail behind which many were hung, built 1905, 1909--today it is the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts.
* Trust building (European Hotel, Terminal Hotel, Pioneer Hotel)-a four-story brick structure that contained apartments, offices, and hotel rooms for rent, built 1906 burned 2005.
* Old Dominion Hotel-most prominent hotel of downtown Globe; famous for Cactus Room Cocktails and beautiful, huge balconies that hung over the street, built 1905 burned 1981.
* Elks Lodge building-the tallest three-story building in the world (it has really high ceilings on each floor)-fired red brick-built 1910-Now an Antique store.
* Murphy Hotel (Tonto Hotel)-beautiful 1916 hotel that closed in the 1970s and is in need of restoration.
* Old Dominion Library-built in 1915 as a memorial to miner's deaths in mine accident-it had an amazing outside porch--burned 1981
* Woolworth building-opened 1916 as FW Woolworth and Company-this was the last Woolworth store to close west of the Mississippi River--now contains United Jewelry Company.
* Gila Valley Bank and Trust building--a 1909 building designed by Sullivan architects of Chicago-the entire ceiling has the original skylights-now a day spa.
* Globe Theater -built 1917-art deco theater with copper columns, a balcony, and retro concession stand--burned 2005, but is set to be reconstructed on the original site using original marquee and other architectural features.
* Alden Theater-an art deco/Spanish colonial theater built around 1910--torn down 1974
* Holy Angels Catholic Church-1918 church with seven story bell tower-still in operation.
Globe-Miami Mine Rescue Station
* Globe-Miami Mine Rescue Station — operated into the 1960s, serving as an emergency rescue center
* Gila Valley, Globe, and Northern Railway Station (Southern Pacific station, Arizona Eastern station)-built 1910/1916--prominent train depot from construction to close in 1950's, now a museum.
* Central School, built in 1891 (addition in 1912), is the oldest school building still in use in Arizona.[8]
* Noftsger Hill School is a handsome classical-revival structure, built in 1917. It is presently used as a bed and breakfast inn.
* Besh-ba-Gowah Pueblo is a reconstructed 14th century Salado Indian ruin, with an archaeological museum adjacent.
* Gila Pueblo was built as an archaeology center c. 1930 by Harold S. Gladwin. Now used as the Gila Pueblo campus of Eastern Arizona College, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
* Cubitto Jewelry building is the building which housed Cubitto Jewelry from 1905-1996; the building has large original glass windows, original maple floor, skylights,balls and weeners."
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