Robert Trudell

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“Another early large property owner was F. S. Ming. Ming came to Yuma from New Jersey in 1904 and quickly acquired a considerable amount of property in the Conservancy area. The Ming Apartments, at 502 S. Orange Avenue (Y.B013),and several other vacant lots were in his possession.

The Ming Apartments, built in 1920, is a stucco over wood frame structure with common Bungalow characteristics. It houses three families and sits on a corner lot at Orange and Fifth Street.

Frank Ming was proprietor of the Southern Pacific Hotel, and was famous for the slogan he adopted from the Pilot Knob Hotel: “free meals, every day the sun doesn’t shine.” Ming was also active in citrus farming and served as Mayor of Yuma in the 1920′s. He pursued an active social life, maintaining memberships in several fraternal organizations. Withe the aid of his brother, Allen B., he built the Del Ming Hotel at 300 Gila Street (Y.M011, National Register #Yu.106).

Arizona State Historic Property Inventory

Page 49

Property Name

A.B. Ming Residence

Location

468 Orange Avenue

City

Yuma

County

Yuma

Owner

Lillie T. Stevens

Owner’s Address

468 Orange Avenue

Yuma, AZ 85364

Form Completed by

Yuma County Historical Society

Address

240 Madison Avenue

Yuma, AZ 85364

Photo by

P. Callahan, Date 4/1978  Yu139

View Front elevation from east

Present Use

Residence/Single Family

Acreage

less/acre

Style or Cultural Period

Bungaloid and Neo-Colonial influence

Significant Dates

Built 1906

Physical Description

The A.B. Ming Residence is a one-and-a-half story frame residence. Its massing is assymetrical and plan irrigular.  Overall the building measures about 28 feet in width by 70 feet in depth. The roof consists of a large bellcast gable with an offset gable extension on the front facade. Roof and gable surfaces are covered with wood shingles; exterior walls are finished with clapboard. A porch follows the recessed configuration of the front facad. The principal entry is located off the south end of the porch. Special features of the building include a Palladian window, a corbeled chimney, and spindlework in the front screen door.

Statement of Significance

Built in 1906 by W.E. (Billy) Marvin, the huse at 468 Orange Avenue is significant both archetecturally and for its several distinguished owners.  Marvin was a Rough Rider, County Supervisor, and real estate agent.  He sold the property in 1908 to Fred Fleishman.  The house remained with the Fleishman family until 1922 when it was purchaced as the home of Allen B. Ming. Mr Ming served for many years as County Assessor and was prominent in civic affairs. Architecturally the building combines formal characteristics of the Bungaloid and Neo-Colonial styles. The building retains most of  its original character and is in excellent condition.

Verbal Boundary Description

Block 118; Lot 6; Yuma Townsite

Arizona State Historic Property Inventory

“Historic Building Form”

Identification

Survey Area Name: Century Heights Conservancy

Historic Name: Allen B. Ming Home

Address/Location: 468 S. Orange Ave.

City/Town: Yuma

Owner: Shinault, Raymond

Owner Address:468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, Arizona 85364

Historic Use: Residence

Present Use: Residence

Building Type: House

Style: Bungalow

Construction Date: 1906

Architect/Builder: W.E. “Billy” Marvin

Integrity: Minor Alterations

Condition: Good

County: Yuma

Survey Site: Y.C003

USGS Quad: Yuma, AZ

T 8s R 23w S 21 / NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4

UTM

Description

Stories: 1 1/2

Dimensions: (l) 28 (w) 70

Structural Material: Wood Frame

Foundation Material: Unknown

Wall Sheathing: Clapboard with corner boards

Applied Ornament: None

Roof Type: Medium bell cast gable with..

Roof Sheathing: Wood Shingle

Eaves Treatment: Boxed cornice, rectangular wood palladian vent on right..

Windows: 1/1 DH, wood frame

Entry: Off-Center with wood screen door and panel wood door with single light

Porches: Open, with shed and gabled roofs with wood posts and no rail

Storefronts: Not Applicable

Notable Interior: Unknown

Outbuildings: Wood frame guest house with DH windows in good condition

Alterations: Side boarded window

Photograph: Linda Laird & Associates

Date: May, 1986

View: W, 3/4

Negative Number: R:L F:5

Additional Description/Analysis (annoted form): Eaves contd: sid pediment and enlongated diamond shaped fixed windows and wood shingles on central pediment.

Roof type contd: single interior chimney, and corbelled chimney.

Prom Occup contd: County Assessor, who with Frank Ming, built the Del Ming Hotel

Significance: Other (specifiy) Architecture

Historic Associations (be concise):

Prominent Occupant/Historic Associations: Marvin was a Rough Rider, County Supervisor, and real estate agent. He sold to Fred Fleishman in 1908, then sold to Ming.

Relationship to Local Development: Relates to elaborate residential development in Yuma

Cultural Affiliations: None

Engineering/Structural: None

District/Streetscape Contribution: Individually listed on the National Register

Discussion as Required: Contributes to the historic fabric of the block face. This building is stylistically similar to eastern shingle style houses of the same period.

Context: Residential Street

Bibliography/Sources:  Phone directories: 1905 – 1923; Tax Assessors’s Rool: 1890 – 1954; Interviews with: Estelle Dingess, Rose Marie Sanguinetti Gwyn, Mary Lorona, George Snow; Doan, May G., I Woldn’t Trade Those Yesterdays; Westover, William H., A Biography of E. F. Sanguinetti; Winsor, Mulford, Unpublished monograph on Jose Marie Redondo; Yuma Chamber of Commerce, The Gate City of the Great Southwest; Yuma Chamber of Commerce, Yuma County Arizona; Newspapers; Arizona Sentinel, The Sun Yuma, Yuma Daily Examiner; City of Yuma building permits 1913-1935.

Listings in other Surveys: Yuma Multiple Resource Area Nomination (Yu.139) Listed

Surveyor: Linda Laird & Assoc.

Survey Date: June 1986

Date Form Completed: August 1986