Tucson Trip - Part 2 - My Old House

I spent the first 10 years of my life in this house at 2021 E First Street in Tucson. It is located one block east of the University of Arizona campus. (Grandma Damron's house is now one block west of the same campus.) This house is now in the Historic Sam Hughes neighborhood and thus is in exceptional condition. It is painted a light pink, because of the watering restrictions it has cactus and rock now instead of grass but overall it is looking great. We didn't bother the occupants this trip. Grandpa Jim purchased this house in 1928 with funds he got when his Uncle Jim Givens died in LA and left him a lot. He took $3000 of that money and purchased this home which had been built for $5000 and also purchased 25 acres of farm land in Thatcher, AZ.


This is a back view from the alley that runs behind the homes. On the left is the garage and on the right is the side of the main house. Behind the house was a small yard enclosed in an adobe wall. It appears that they have added a large extension to the back of the original house that is inside the wall. Behind the wall was an open area where I liked to play in the dirt as a child.Sam Hughes School was my first school and hasn't changed much in the past 55 years since I first attended there. It too is adobe. The large building the the administrative building. I attended classes to the right of the large building. I was amazed that this school is still in use after all these years as my three sisters also attended here so this school must date from the 1920's