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Architecture Gallery

Historic Copper Queen Library, a three-story brick building with arched balconies, in downtown Bisbee, Arizona.

Photos of buildings and streetscapes from Big Jeep Tours routes in Bisbee, Arizona. The set covers Old Bisbee, Brewery Gulch, Lowell, Warren, and Naco: brick commercial blocks, miners’ houses, schools, churches, a company-town grid, and the border buildings at Naco.These are stops on the private Jeep tours, not a walking map. Travis names the building and the year. The gallery is the look of the street.

What the photos show

Old Bisbee is built into a canyon. Commercial blocks sit on the flat streets. Houses step up the slopes on retaining walls and public staircases. Lowell keeps mining-era and mid-century storefronts. Warren is a planned grid from 1905, with larger company houses and Warren Ballpark. Naco is the border town south of Bisbee: the port of entry, Fort Naco, and the wall between Naco, Arizona, and Naco, Sonora.

 

The photos were taken by Travis or by guests during tours. You can photograph every stop.

Square, brown adobe ruins with missing windows and dirt floors under a blue sky.

Buildings you will recognize

  • Muheim Block - 1905 brick block at the mouth of Brewery Gulch. Joseph Muheim built it for stores, offices, a café, and a saloon. The stock board from the later Stock Exchange Saloon is still inside.

  • Copper Queen Hotel - Opened in 1902 on Howell Avenue, cut into the hillside above the plaza.

  • Pythian Castle - Lodge hall above Brewery Gulch, visible from the lower streets.

  • Cochise County Courthouse - County seat building on Quality Hill after the seat moved from Tombstone to Bisbee in 1929.

  • St. Elmo Bar - 36 Brewery Avenue. Opened in 1902 on the old saloon street.

  • Copper Queen Library / Post Office - Main Street face of the plaza.

  • Lowell School Copper Doors - Opened in 1931 on Old Douglas Road.

  • Warren Ballpark - In use since 1905, is Arizona’s first planned community.

  • Naco Port of Entry - The crossing between the two Nacos. The gallery includes the port buildings and the wall that now divides the twin towns.

  • Fort Naco - U.S. Army post from 1911, built during the Mexican Revolution border years. Adobe barracks and the parade ground still stand south of Bisbee.

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The gallery also includes porch columns, Italianate window hoods, stone retaining walls, WPA staircases, St. Patrick Church, Central School, and miners’ houses moved when the open pits expanded.

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Architecture Tour FAQs

  • Can I take photos on the architecture tour?

    • Yes! Guests are encouraged to photograph all stops—every tour is private and relaxed.

  • Which tour has the most architectural sites?

    • Our 12 City Tour covers the widest range, but Old Bisbee and Lowell-focused tours are loaded with historic buildings.

  • What makes Bisbee’s architecture unique?

    • The mix of Victorian, Italianate, Gothic, Art Deco, and mining-era buildings stacked into the Mule Mountains is found nowhere else in Arizona.

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