Harry Saxon House

	Harry Saxon House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The house in 2019
Location	308 S. Haskell Street, Willcox, Arizona
Coordinates	32°51′00″N109°50′04″W / 32.85000°N 109.83444°W Coordinates: 32°51′00″N109°50′04″W / 32.85000°N 109.83444°W
NRHP reference No.	78000541
Added to NRHP	March 27, 1987

Last updated January 27, 2023

The Harry Saxon House is an historic structure located in Willcox, Arizona. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 1987.^[2]

The house is an adobe Bungalow style home, considered a rare house type, for its combination of building materials and house style. The house was built as the town-home of Harry Saxon, who owned the nearby Box Bar Ranch, and had been a sheriff during Arizona's territorial days, as well as serving in Arizona's First State Legislature.^[2]

The house sits on an adobe foundation, and has a stucco exterior. It has a gable roof covered in wooden shingles. There is a platform veranda-style porch with wood piers, and a central panel door main entrance, the a single window.^[2]

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References

↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
1 2 3 "Arizona State Historic Property Inventory". National Park Service. August 1986. pp. 1–3. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NPS-2] 1 2 3 "Arizona State Historic Property Inventory". National Park Service. August 1986. pp. 1–3. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.

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