Josias Joesler
Josias Thomas Joesler was a Swiss-American Tucson, Arizona architect.
Born in 1895 in Zurich. Joesler’s architectural legacy would come to articulate the romantic revival Tucson style of the first half of the 20th century.
Joesler married his wife Natividad and the two moved to Tucson in 1927.
His major surviving commercial architectural masterpieces are spread throughout the historic Tucson core. Extant buildings are clustered along the Forth Avenue shopping district, the Broadway Shopping center on the corner of County Club and Broadway. The Saint Philips Church and Plaza at Campbell and River Road, St Michael’s Church at 5th and Wilmot and The Ghost Ranch Lodge on Miracle Mile.
Many of his residential buildings are in the Catalina Foothills Estates.
His buildings utilized traditional southwestern hand crafted decorative motifs including: hand applied plaster, hand hewn beams, colored concrete floors and decorative iron/tin work.
Joesler died in Tucson 12 February 1956, Natividad Joesler died in Spain June 23, 1963.
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[edit] Extant Buildings
All buildings located in Tucson unless otherwise noted.
Arizona History Museum (Arizona Historical Society headquarters)- 949 E. Second St. at Park Ave.
Broadway Village Shopping Center (1939) - Southwest corner of Broadway Blvd. and Country Club Road.
Don Martin Apartments - 605 East 9th Street.
Haynes Building (1928) - 310 East 6th Street
Fourth Avenue Shops (1928) - 616 North 4th Avenue
Ghost Ranch Lodge - 801 West Miracle Mile
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House (1949) - 1509 East 2nd Street
Seventh-Day Adventist Chapel (1942) - 1200 North Mountain Avenue
Tucson Unified School District Educational Building Expansion (1948) - 1010 East 10th Street
St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church (1936) - Northeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue
Murphey-Keith Office Building & Catalina Foothills Estate Estate Sales Office/Joesler Studio (1937) - River Road and Campbell Avenue
Hutton Webster Studio and Residence (1939) - River Road and Campbell Avenue
Murphey-Keith Building Company Office (1940) - River Road and Campbell Avenue.
El Merendero Tea Room & Gift Shop (1937) - River Road and Campbell Avenue.
St. Philip's Park (1936) - River Road and Campbell Avenue.
Catalina Foothills School (1931) Built by the New Deal Works Projects Administration (WPA) - River Road east of Campbell Avenue.
Catalina Foothills Estates - North of River Road between Campbell Avenue and Hacienda del Sol
Grace Mansion (Eleven Arches) (1937) - Catalina Foothills Estates
Hacienda Del Sol reconstruction (late 1930s) - Hacienda Del Sol
Joesler/Loerpabel Residence (1936)
Johnson Residence (1936)
St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church (1953) - 620 North Wilmot Road
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (1948) Campbell and Helen
[edit] Demolished Buildings
Old World Addition (1927 -1928) - Mabel Street, Campbell Avenue, Elm Street and Martin Avenue. Demolished (1970s)
[edit] References
Jeffery, R. Brooks. Joesler & Murphey: An Architectural Legacy for Tucson. (1994)
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/josiasjoesler/index.html
Tucson Home Magazine. A Joesler Retrospective Two Parts: http://www.tucsonhomemagazine.com/features/joesler.html
AZ Daily Star: http://regulus.azstarnet.com/azcommunityprofiles/index.php?comm=catfoo&subsection=realestate
Gellner, Arrol. Red Tile Style: America's Spanish Revival Architecture. Penguin Group, 2002.
Wangner, The Arts and Decoration Book of Successful Houses, Robert M. McBride & Co. 1940.
Tibbets, Joe. Adobe News, Issue #10, 1976.
Regan, Margaret, Joesler Jostle, Tucson Weekly March 15, 2001: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/arts/Content?oid=oid:43791
Tucson Daily Citizen, Foothills Architects Appointed, June 12, 1957 p. 6
Brown, Mary. Tucson Daily Citizen, Mountain Vista Surrounds Home of Arthur Presents. January 19, 1963.
Brown, Mary. Tucson Daily Citizen, Ambitions Realized. December 18, 1965. p. 50.
McNeil, Barbara. Tucson Daily Citizen, TFAA Tour of Homes Highlights Local Architecture and Interiors. March 7, 1959. p. 50.
Smith, Barbara. Tucson Daily Citizen, The Dentons Chose a Perfect House for Their Indian Art. October 29, 1960.
Smith, Barbara. Tucson Daily Citizen, An Old House Comes to Live Again. February 3, 1962. p 50.
Tucson Daily Citizen, Mrs. Joesler Dies; Former Tucsonian. July 2, 1963 p 23.
[edit] External links
St. Phillips Church: http://www.stphilipstucson.org
St. Michael Episcopal Parish: http://smaa.mavarin.com/smaa.html
Ghost Ranch Lodge: http://www.ghostranchlodge.com
