Annie Verona "Veronica" Barry Hughart (1907–1977) was artist, architectural designer and journalist who lived in

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and was an active part of the Old Fort Lowell art colony.

Life

Hughart was born in

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to Ernest Zimmerman Barry and Annie Lee Frazelle. She attended school in

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and lived in

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and

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. In 1931, she married John Harding Page. She moved to a ranch near

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in 1943. She purchased and operated the H Cross guest ranch near Bonita before moving to Tucson in 1951. In 1954, Hughart purchased a three-room adobe shell on

Fort Lowell Fort Lowell was a United States Army post active from 1873 to 1891 on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Fort Lowell was the successor to Camp Lowell, an earlier Army installation.http://www.oflna.org/fort_lowell_museum/ftlowell.htm Fort Lowell, ...

Road. With the help of her twin sons Peter and author

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she transformed the structure into what was called in the

Arizona Daily Star The ''Arizona Daily Star'' is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States. History L. C. Hughes was the Arizona Territory governor and founder of the ''Arizona Star'', ...

in 1957 “a small house of unusual charm, conveniently compact while suggesting spaciousness. One principle appears to guide everything she does; every situation is unique. In her architectural work, she constantly adapts traditional ideas to meet a particular need; she is a past master of making what she needs from what she has at hand.” The Japanese inspired garden of her

home was designed by Tucson modernist sculptor and artist Charles Clement. Hughart was an unabashed enthusiast about Arizona-Sonoran indigenous architecture and building materials. In the early 1950s, she wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column called "What A Women Thinks". She studied architecture and designed or remodeled more than thirty Tucson houses between 1956 and her death. Hughart died in

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

in 1977.Sears, Barbara, Arizona Daily Star, Time, Much Imagination Increase 'Dobe's Charm, 18 August 1963

Works

* Veronica Hughart House (Old

, Tucson, Arizona) *

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and

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House Additions (Old

, Tucson, Arizona) * S. Bayard Colgate House (Tucson, Arizona) *

Josias Joesler Josias Thomas Joesler was a Swiss-American Tucson, Arizona architect. Life and work Joesler was born in 1895 in Zurich, Switzerland. His architectural legacy would come to articulate the romantic revival Tucson style of the first half of the 20t ...

2nd House (W. H. Loerpabels Addition) (Poets Corner, Tucson, Arizona) * James F. Eager Speculative House (Flecha Caida Estates, Tucson, Arizona) * Daniel Davis House (Tucson, Arizona) * John H. Hansen House (Tucson, Arizona) 1963 * Nora Pickrell House, (Tucson, Arizona) * Barton Cross House, (Tucson, Arizona) 1969

References

*Turner, Teresa, The People of Fort Lowell, Fort Lowell Historic District Board *Arizona Daily Star, Artist, Designer Veronica Hughart Dies of Cancer, 4 August 1977

External links

Work in Old Fort Lowell
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