National Register Listing

Old Library Building

a.k.a. Arizona State Museum, Building #26, University of Arizona

University of Arizona campus, Tucson, AZ
Local significance of the building:
Education; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The Apache Trail was built by prison labor: The Apache Trail is a scenic drive through the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. The road was built in the early 1900s using prison labor from the nearby Yuma Territorial Prison.