A local stone mason built several stone structures in the early 20s, sometimes with stones that were gathered by the people having him build for them:
Presbyterian Church, now a museum:
The Women's club:
We also visited Florence where there are dozens and dozens of historic and restored homes and buildings. They have a weekend tour of homes in February each year, so we missed that but it was still cool to tour around this little town.
This building is now the visitor center, but originally it was the City Bakery which opened in April of 1890:
Ralph and Beau taking advantage of a bench in the shade no less!!
The Silver King Hotel was started in 1876 by William Long, one of the owners of the Silver King Mine. It was added on to in 1888 and further expanded in 1895 after a fire destroyed a portion of the original structure. It's now owned by the city of Florence itself.
I loved this home!!! It's referred to as the Joseph Spinas "rental" house and it was built in 1913 as a rental home for a local cattle rancher. I'd enjoy this house today with it's broad and shady front porch!
I also loved this storefront on the main street of town and I'm just not used to street trees being orange trees! They were absolutely loaded with fruit too.
The Pinal County Courthouse was built in 1891 and was used for that purpose until it was vacated in 2005 because of its condition. A couple of interesting things about this building: One...they never ended up having money in the budget to actually put a clock in the tower, so that face on the building is actually a metal facing with hands permanently set at 11:44!! And two: rumor has it the tower was where public hangings were performed.
They are in the process of repairing and restoring the building and hope to open it to the public again some time soon.
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