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Hello all!

While doing some research on a contractor from Los Angeles, I came across a list of the buildings he was the contractor for including a little hotel in Tucson called the Santa Rita.? This was in the early 1900's so I'm pretty sure it would have to be the original part of the building, and the first part to come down, in 1906.? His name was John V. McNeil, owner and operator of J. V. McNeil Construction in Los Angeles.? It fits with the fact that so many of our early buildings were being designed by California architects at that time (of course, Henry Trost did the first Santa Rita building, Curlett and Son did the 1917 addition).? This gentleman did some wonderful buildings, both in California and the southwest, including a library for Loyola Marymount and a theatre in the Masonic Temple in Los Angeles, in use until the mid 1990.

Just thought I'd share a little tidbit of Tucson's history!

Catherine