We Yuma visited for the second time, this time to attend Yuma Lettuce Days. We had already gone through a lot of things to do in Yuma our list when we explored historic neighborhoods of Yuma , but one thing we had not done during our first visit to Yuma was visit the Museum of the House Sanguinetti, so we decided to add that our itinerary. With our visit to the museum, a historical walking tour offered by the museum, and our history to stay Coronado Motor Hotel, we learned more about the excellent work of the city of Yuma has in preserving many of its history sites.
E. F. Sanguinetti has been called the "Yuma merchant prince." He was of Italian origin and born in California. He was the perfect gentleman, always wear three-piece suits and top hats, even though he lived in the desert. When Sanguinetti came to Yuma, he immediately saw the Yuma needs and companies created to meet those needs. He quickly gained wealth and influence. He brought in Yuma stores and invented the "cash and carry" system of walking into a store, choose the things you want on the shelves, buy them at the cash register, and carry them home. Previously, residents Yuma visiting a store, order a catalog, and wait for their purchases to be delivered, perhaps months later.
The original home was built of adobe on Madison Avenue in the 1870s Sanguinetti bought the two-room house with lean-to kitchen 180. the original house had dirt floors and en reeds and mud with draped chiffon under the ceiling to catch the pieces or parts that have fallen from the roof. Sanguinetti married and has added to the house, one room at a time, his family grew.
A house tour Sanguinetti has two parts. We visit the original part of the adobe house that is where Sanguinetti to dine. Sanguinetti has held many dinners at his house and had dinner with businessmen, serving good meals on the fancy China. Each dinner is over by Manhattans. The other part of the tour visits the new parts of the house and presents the history and stories of Yuma.
We joined one of Historic Downtown Yuma Walking Tours Sanguinetti House Museum led by Steve Cook. Tours begin and end at the museum. The museum is located in the historic district of Brinley Yuma, so named because Madison Avenue once Brinley Street. This area of the city used to be filled with adobe houses. Just two doors up the museum is the oldest adobe house in Yuma, which was built in 1899. Only a few of Yuma adobe houses still exist because all adobes near Main Street swept away when the Colorado river flooded the city. Adobes like Sanguinetti house survived because they are a little higher ground.
We learned on our walking tour that Yuma has 54 properties and locations that are on the National Register of Historic Places as the Hotel San Carlos. The San Carlos Hotel used to be popular with the type Hollywood and it was also a honeymoon hotel that weddings were big business in Yuma. Army troops were trained in Yuma WWII. After fighting they returned to Yuma. Yuma was very conservative and a couple could not register in a hotel unless they were married. Fortunately for anxious couples, Yuma does not need a blood test or waiting period, and there were a number of wedding chapels. At the corner of 1st Street and Madison is one of the remaining chapels, the Gold Wedding Bell Wedding Chapel, which operated from 1940 to 1946. The building was originally first pharmacy Yuma 1891- 1914, and in the 1920s was a Chinese laundry and opium den.
We learned how the goods came to Yuma in the past. They were first brought by steamer to the filing of the Intendant. Then the train came to town. The original trains that came to Yuma were steam trains which used 100 gallons to travel one mile. The Colorado river provided plenty of water, but the water was a lot of silt in it. sedimentation basins were built to clean water for the steam trains and drinking water. Before settling basins was slow machine of Blaisdell sand filter, which does the same and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The washing machine water was invented by Hiram Blaisdell to filter the sand of the river to provide drinking water homes.
Another Yuma monuments on the National Register of Historic Places is the Ocean to Ocean Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1915 and was the first road bridge over the Colorado River for more than a thousand miles. He also made it easier for people to travel to San Diego for the Panama-California Exposition. During the Dust Bowl of armed guards have migrators prove they had enough money before crossing the bridge. Some who could not cross took residence at the Yuma Territorial Prison.
During our walking tour, we saw the Indian Mission St. Thomas across the river. We decided to walk on the deck of the ocean to the ocean to get a closer view of the mission. Technically, this mission is not in Yuma, or even Arizona. It is in Winterhaven, California. However, this did not exist when the border Purisima Concepcion Mission The original was built in 1780. The mission was destroyed only a year later, in an Indian massacre that killed the two Fathers. The present church was built in 1922 on the original site mission.
Another preserved historical sites of Yuma is Historic Coronado Motor Hotel , which also happens to be the hotel where we spent our weekend in Yuma. The hotel was built in 1938 and had 14 rooms. It was the first hip hotel in Arizona and was the oldest Best Western still in existence (68 years) until it recently became independent property.
The Historic Coronado Motor Hotel was, and still is, owned by the Peach family. Peach John's parents came to the US from Czechoslovakia through Ellis Island. His father was a tailor John Peach, and it was suggested to him to come to Yuma because there were no tailors in Yuma. While John Peach ran a tailor shop, Mary Peach managed a hotel room and free pension. In 1938, they built the Auto Peach Court in what was then the outskirts of Yuma.
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The Casa Coronado Museum is a museum in the building that used to function as the home of the family Peach and the original lobby of the hotel. If you ask in advance, Yvonne Peach will offer a tour of the museum. The museum is filled with memories Yuma so as items when Bob Hope would come to town and perform at the USO and the furniture in the Peach family, appliances and photos.
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We loved staying here with so much history Yuma. It is an old style hotel, but the rooms have been renovated. On first arrival you will be greeted with the special touch of a towel animal on your bed The bed was comfortable and the bathroom felt more like a bathroom in the house than a hotel. The hotel is located near the historic downtown Yuma, which means you can buy a bottle of wine Yuma Yuma Main Squeeze and bring it back to enjoy in the room during the weekend.
Guests Hotel breakfast included, which is served Yuma Landing Bar & Grill . Some over Yuma memories of the Peach family can be found in the restaurant. The restaurant is called Yuma Landing because it is the place to site the first person to land a plane in Arizona under its own power touched down. A monument to Robert Grant Fowler outside.
For a town that people usually just drive through or used as a quick halt, Yuma has a surprising amount of history and things to do and see.
Thanks Visit Yuma for hosting our weekend in Yuma, Arizona, and by making this position possible. As always, all opinions are my own.
Thanks Visit Yuma for hosting our weekend in Yuma, Arizona, and by making this position possible. As always, all opinions are my own.
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