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Centennial Park dedication & “Mansions of Main” home tour

by on Mar. 31, 2011, under Life, Politics

Centennial Park dedication to commemorate Arizona’s upcoming 100 years of Statehood, along with “Mansions of Main” Home Tour, both on April 2, 2011:

Mayor Bob Walkup, Councilmember Regina Romero, Supervisor Richard Elias, and Robert Knight, Tucson Museum of Art Director are just a few of the dignitaries who will place the first bricks for the Centennial Park Memorial Brick Path. This pathway is dedicated to honoring Tucson’s pioneer families at the time Arizona was granted
statehood.

Saturday, April 2nd 10:00am – 1:30 pm

* 10 am — Presidio San Agustìn del Tucson Firing of the Historic Cannon
o living history enactment
* 12 pm — Box lunch from El Charro at Centennial Park site
o Davis School Mariachi Band
o Presidio Garrison firing of muskets
o box lunch prices are $10 each; credit cards accepted
o lunch includes soda or water
* 1 pm — Ground Breaking Event at Centennial Park
o Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup and Councilwoman Regina Romero will place the first bricks for the Centennial Park Memorial Brick Path

Centennial Park is located in the El Presidio Historic District at the
Northwest corner of West Paseo Redondo and North Main Avenue downtown.

Centennial Park is an official Arizona Centennial Legacy Project
commemorating the history and culture of the El Presidio Historic District
downtown. From the Hohokam who settled here centuries ago to the Spanish
who established New Spain’s Presidio San Agustin del Tucson eight hundred
years later, the Camino Real (Main Avenue as it is know today) has been the
pathway of commerce. The Camino Real is the connecting thread along which
the pioneer families of Tucson chose to build their futures. Be a part of
building a park next to this well traveled trade route to commemorate
Arizona’s Centennial in 2012. Leave a legacy for future generations by
participate in transforming a vacant lot into an interpretive pocket park.
Purchase a brick to represent a pioneer to pave the way for Centennial
Park.

Proceeds to benefit the construction of Centennial Park.
For information, contributions, or brick orders go to
www.centennialparktucson.org.
For additional brick information call: 520.837.8054. 4″ x 8″ Brick with 3 line message
costs $100.00, 8″ x 8″ Brick with 6 line message costs $200.00.

Also on Saturday April 2nd:

El Presidio Historic District “Mansions of Main” Home Tour
Saturday, April 2, 2011 1:30 to 3:30pm
El Presidio Historic District in Downtown Tucson

The “Mansions of Main” Home tour will feature five beautifully restored
homes on Main Avenue which were in existence at the time of statehood.
Spend the afternoon exploring the history and architecture of the El
Presidio Historic District.

Take a leisurely stroll along Main Street or Calle Real (the Royal Road) as it was known in the 1800’s and let your mind take you back in time to when the Steinfelds, the Corbetts, and the Cheyneys opened their homes to entertain guests. Re-enactors dressed in period clothing will present family histories of selected homes and the home tour will allow guests to experience turn of the century Tucson.

Home tour tickets are $10.00 per person.

For more Centennial information go to www.azcentennial.gov, or www.arizona100.org.

For additional press information contact:
Annette Campbell
Campbell Design and Communications
372 West Franklin Street, Tucson, Arizona 85701
520.882.8800

More about these events on Downtown Tucson website:
http://www.downtowntucson.org/news/?p=3146

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  • Dick

    Please do not support the Arizona Centennial 2012 Foundation. Their badly misguided project, the Arizona Centennial Museum (AKA Arizona Experience Museum) is displacing top rated and self supporting K -12 earth science education programs at the mineral museum.  The centennial museum has no educational value and will cost taxpayers millions.

    • Fraser007

      Carolyn:
      The comment by Dick is true. You know I speak the truth. Have your readers check out “Mineral Museum Madness”.

      Also it looks like Asta is about to sink. Isnt life beautiful.

      • Carolyn Classen

        Fraser, do you mean this website:
        http://www.minmumad.blogspot.com/

        • Fraser007

          Thats the one. Can’t we just issue a stamp, have a party and dedicate a statue or two and move on. This state is broke.
          Correction: We are going to pull out a statue that exists in the Washington DC Capitol (we aonly have two) and put in Barry Goldwater. Now I like Barry but do we just dump our heros from the past and put someone else in there. I wonder if the Goldwater Institute is behing this.
          The guy we are pulling just went up San Juan Hill and was a major player in copper mining. His name is John Greenway. Bye John.

      • Fraser007

        Looks like Asta wants the public to vote on whether he should run. LOL So all democrats and the Republican folks who want the other guy to win will vote big time.  Bye Ron.

  • Carolyn Classen

    Dedication & groundbreaking today with Ward 1 Councilmember Regina Romero, former Councilmember Jerry Anderson (Ward 3), Michael Keith of Tucson Downtown Partnership and Janet Stewart, author of “Mansions of Main Street” book.  TMA, Fox Tucson Theatre, Franklin Auto Museum, and others had tables at this event as well.

  • Carolyn Classen

    Walked  by the corner of this proposed park on Main Ave. x West Paseo Redondo, and there are now 33 bricks lying along the sidewalk, purchased by Supervisor Richard Elias, Councilmember Regina Romero, Downtown Tucson Partnership, Fox Tucson Theatre, Tucson Museum of Art, and other community members/artists.  However, the brick by Mayor Robert Walkup is listed as stolen 3/2/11.  Some are single bricks, others are double size.  (No security or gluing onto anything so these bricks can be stolen).

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