100 years ago
1925: That plans have been drawn and work will begin within a very few weeks on a modern apartment house and store building at the northwest corner of Leroux and Aspen, just across the street west from the Arizona Central bank, is the best news the SUN has to announce this week. It will be built for Mrs. L.R. Hall, lessee of the Hotel Weatherford, on part of the lots she bought some time ago from the Arizona Central bank. This is the biggest definite step taken in a long time to help solve the housing problem with which Flagstaff has been confronted for years and which has steadily been growing more perplexing. The SUN has known for some time what was being planned, but complied with the request not to make the announcement until papers had actually been signed. They have been. The structure will be two stories and basement, of pressed bricks, ornamental façade of modified Spanish style, with shuttered windows. The lower floor will be divided into two stores with extra high ceilings. One, facing Leroux Street, will have a 50-foot front and extend back 80 feet. It is to be occupied by the J.C. Penny company, whose present quarters in the Masonic Temple have been outgrown. The other store will be behind the larger one, having 25-foot frontage on Aspen Avenue and depth of 50 feet. The entrance to the apartments on the second story will be from Aspen.
Editor Chris Etling takes you behind the scenes of just one example of how we look through archives for information used in the Flagstaff History column.
Gallery: More snow falls across Flagstaff
Second Day of Snow
Kimberley Denune sports a unique Cthulhu hat to keep warm while clearing snow outside her home in downtown Flagstaff on Friday morning. The second of back-to-back storms dropped a substantial amount of snow across the city.
Second Day of Snow
Donald Hepburn, full of excitement, sits on his sled as girlfriend Adria Squires gives him a push in Wheeler Park on Friday morning.
Second Day of Snow
Juniper Schmier, 8, left, and brother Felix, 5, have fun during their second snow day in a row by making snow cones out of the freshly fallen powder outside their home on Friday morning.
Second Day of Snow
Elio Titcomb, 3, enjoys a mouthful of snow cone made from fresh snow while he plays with neighbors on Friday morning.
Second Day of Snow
Robb Belcher shovels snow from the sidewalks near his home in downtown Flagstaff on Friday morning.
Second Day of Snow
Adria Squires laughs as she sleds in the fluffy snow at Wheeler Park with boyfriend Donald Hepburn on Friday morning.
Second Day of Snow
Felix Schmier, 5, enjoys his second snow day in a row by taking his cat, Charlie, on a sled ride outside his home on Friday, March 7.
Second Day of Snow
Charlie hitches a ride on a sled outside his home in Flagstaff on Friday morning.
