A Change in Living: Transforming Cultural Identities and Domestic Architecture in Historic Tucson

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, Tucson, Arizona, underwent rapid demographic and cultural change. Over an eighty-year period, the Hispanic residents of Tucson were first flooded by Euro-American settlers, and later forcibly integrated into the developing United States. As a result, the existing Hispanic and indigenous communities in Tucson came in close contact with ever larger Euro-American and Chinese-American communities. This poster examines how the local and immigrant cultures interacted with each other by investigating changes in Tucson’s domestic architecture between 1860-1920. In particular, this poster compares how the house styles in downtown Tucson changed over this eighty year period to examine how the community and culture of Tucson was influenced by the interaction between the area’s local Hispanic and indigenous communities and the successive waves of Euro-American and Chinese settlers.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53245