Tempe Historic Property Survey

A portion of this compound may have been the original home built by Alcaria Jones, widow of Dr. Wilson Walker Jones, to house her family after her husband's death. Dr. Jones was one of the earliest physicians in the Salt River Valley, having traveled through the area with his freighting business in the 1860s. Dr. Jones, who was a specialist in tuberculosis, bought a ranch south of Phoenix after selling his interest in the famed Vulture Mine at Wickenburg in 1878. Dr. Jones died in 1896, and Alcaria, according to family descendants, built a house at this location to raise her young family. Mrs. Jones died in 1928. Her daughter and son-in-law, Kathryn and Jesus E. Gomez, inherited the property, which was sold to the Cook Christian Training School in 1965.

This Cook Christian Training School building is a U-shaped, single-story adobe building. Each wing has a hipped roof covered with asphalt shingles with open eaves. Walls are plastered. The overall massing of this simple building remains intact even though the building has been altered somewhat.

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