Historic Barrio Libre
Located on Avenida Del Convento in the Barrio Historico district, this 1900s Transformed Sonoran row house’s original adobe is a measure of time, light, and shadow. Built somewhere between 1901 and 1909 by Manuel Ahloy, a Chinese cook. Additions, and uses transformed over the years, including being home to a small café called El Durango run by the Trejo family sometime after 19421.
The scope of the project was to honor the spaces constructed out of adobe, reinforcing, and modifying the later additions and adding a new masonry space, shaping a courtyard for an outdoor connection to what was once a neighborhood at the edge of the floodplain of the Santa Cruz River.
1. Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, and Manuel Ahloy. Ahloy House, 492-494 South Convent Avenue, Tucson, Pima County, AZ. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/az0068/>.
Project Team
Jesus Robles
Jacob Downard
Brooke Sands
Lizzy Guevara
Construction Team
Jesus Robles - CM
Jacob Downard - CM, Supervisor
Agustin Valdez - Masonry, Earthwork, Stucco, Framing, Landscape