The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum is a local history museum at 5 Copper Queen Plaza in

Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is southeast of Tucson and north of the Mexican border. According to the 2020 census, the population of the town was 4,923, down from 5,575 i ...

. It is located in the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

for the importance of the

Phelps Dodge Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James. The latter two ran Phelps, James & Co., the part of the ...

Corporation's role in the growth and development of the American Southwest. The museum is dedicated primarily to local history, particularly the town's founding and growth as a mining center.

Building

The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum is located in downtown Bisbee, facing south toward Tombstone Canyon Road near its junction with Howell Avenue. It is a two-story red brick building, its main section covered by a gabled roof. A single-story ell extends to one side, and its front facade is adorned by a pair of projecting two-story polygonal bays. Windows are typically topped by rounded arches, and the main entrance is at the center of the south facade, sheltered by a portico whose rounded archway is supported by square brick posts. Several of the interior rooms have been restored to a period appearance, while others are given over to museum galleries and offices. The building was the headquarters of the

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

company from 1896 to 1961.Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
/ref> It thereafter house county offices, and served for a time as the local post office before being adapted by the city for use as a museum in 1971. It s designated a

in 1983 for its associate with Phelps Dodge, whose growth mirrored that of the country and region in the second half of the 19th century. Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum 025

References

{{National Register of Historic Places National Historic Landmarks in Arizona Buildings and structures in Cochise County, Arizona Commercial buildings completed in 1895 Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona 1895 establishments in Arizona Territory National Register of Historic Places in Cochise County, Arizona Bisbee, Arizona