Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

Casa Grande, administered by the National Park Service, is one of the most intriguing prehistoric ruins in the United States. Built by the Hohokam Indians in the Gila Valley sometime between 1150 and 1350 A.D., the four-story building and ...

La Casa Cordova

La Casa Cordova, now a part of the Tucson Museum of Art, may be the oldest surviving building in Tucson. The one-story adobe house is of typical Mexican town house design with a flat roof, central brick courtyard and ...

Barrio Libre

Barrio Libre (Spanish for "free district") is Tucson's major Spanish-speaking neighborhood and has played an important role in the development of the city. Located just south of Presidio de San Agustín del Tucson (1775), one of Spain's northern forts, ...

El Presidio Historic District

The El Presidio Historic District is a residential neighborhood containing adobe and brick buildings in the Spanish-Mexican, Anglo-American and Eclectic architectural styles. Named for the Spanish-built Presidio de San Augustín del Tucson (1775), El Presidio is one of the nation's ...

San Xavier del Bac

Called the "White Dove of the Desert," San Xavier Del Bac is one of the most beautiful mission church complexes in the Southwest. The original mission was founded in 1692 by a Jesuit missionary, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, to ...

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Tumacácori Mission (San José de Tumacácori) was founded by Jesuit missionaries in 1691. Constructed in 1757, the original mission included a small church and compound. In 1799 a more imposing church with a painted interior was built by Franciscan ...

Coronado National Memorial

This site commemorates the first major European exploration of the American Southwest, the 1540-1542 expedition led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. The expedition was searching for the seven mythical gold Cities of Cíbola rumored to be somewhere north of ...

Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Fort Bowie was built in 1862 in the Chiricahua Mountains to protect the U.S. Mail route and settlers heading west to the California gold fields. The fort served as the base of operations during the Apache Wars (1861-1886), the ...

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

“Val-Kill is where I used to find myself and grow. At Val-Kill I emerged as an individual.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Val-Kill, the retreat about two miles from Springwood, the “big house” at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park, was the only ...

First Ladies National Historic Site

Americans did not start calling the president’s wife the “First Lady” until some time in the middle of the 19th century. Some people say Zachary Taylor was the first to use the term in his 1849 eulogy on the ...