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Walter Douglas House, Arizona, USA, was been placed on the National
Register
of Historic Places by the United States Department of the
Interior.
Built 1907; Architect: Henry C. Trost
Other Names: W. H. Brophy house; Solomon house; Loma Linda Lodge; Hodgson house
Address: 201 Cole Avenue, Bisbee (Warren), Cochise County, Arizona
Present Owner: Privately owned, Denise Loth 2011
The Walter Douglas House, in Bisbee, Arizona, was built for
Walter Douglas in 1908, who was the general manager for the Phelps-Dodge Company. It was the first house built in what was then Warren, Arizona, which was Arizona's first planned community, and was the largest home in the community. Designed by the architectural firm, Trost and Trost,
it is a Crafts/Mission Revival Style house.
The house has 11 bedrooms, a library, a billiards room, a basement, several school rooms, six fireplaces with Grueby tile, leaded-glass windowns
and maple flooring. It also has three apartments (one of four rooms and
two of six rooms); and 10,000 square feet (930 m2) of patio space.
Throughout the years, the house has served several different purposes. Initially it was a private residence for Douglas. Then it was carved into apartments and at one point served as a lodge. In the late 1900s it was renovated as a private residence once again.
The house was designed by Henry Trost of the Trost and Trost architectural firm in El Paso, Texas. Trost had lived several years in southern Arizona before moving to Texas. He was commissioned to design and build the house in 1907, and had it finished on July 5, 1908, at the cost of $65,000. It is the largest residence ever built by Trost,
who had been taught by Louis Sullivan, alongside Frank Lloyd Wright.
Over the years the house went through several owners and incarnations. The house was initially built by and owned by the Phelps-Dodge Corporation. Walter Douglas and his family owned the house from its construction through 1922. They lived their full-time(1) until 1910, when Douglas was made president of the entire Phelps-Dodge Corporation, and the family moved their residence to New York City. However, they maintained the house in Douglas as a summer residence.
In 1922, P. O. Becket, the general manager of the Copper Queen Mine occupied the house until 1929, when Colonel Hartzen and his family, who succeeded Becket as the G. M. at the Copper Queen, began living there, and remained until 1941. Phelps-Dodge sold the residence in 1941 to Frank Cunningham, who divided the house into apartments to house people working at nearby military bases during World War II.
It remained an apartment building through a sequence of owners until it was sold to Marc McIntyre in 1976, who converted it back into an individual residence. A process which was continued by subsequent owners.
Notes:
1. Walter Douglas is said to have never stayed in the home; but many family members did throughout the years.
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