Annie Verona "Veronica" Barry Hughart (1907–1977) was artist, architectural designer and journalist who lived in

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and was an active part of the Old Fort Lowell art colony.

Life

Hughart was born in

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to Ernest Zimmerman Barry and Annie Lee Frazelle. She attended school in

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and lived in

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and

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. In 1931, she married John Harding Page. She moved to a ranch near Willcox, Arizona in 1943. She purchased and operated the H Cross guest ranch near Bonita before moving to Tucson in 1951. In 1954, Hughart purchased a three-room adobe shell on Fort Lowell Road. With the help of her twin sons Peter and author Barry Hughart she transformed the structure into what was called in the

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in 1957 “a small house of unusual charm, conveniently compact while suggesting spaciousness. One principle appears to guide everything she does; every situation is unique. In her architectural work, she constantly adapts traditional ideas to meet a particular need; she is a past master of making what she needs from what she has at hand.” The Japanese inspired garden of her Fort Lowell home was designed by Tucson modernist sculptor and artist Charles Clement. Hughart was an unabashed enthusiast about Arizona-Sonoran indigenous architecture and building materials. In the early 1950s, she wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column called "What A Women Thinks". She studied architecture and designed or remodeled more than thirty Tucson houses between 1956 and her death. Hughart died in

in 1977.

Works

* Veronica Hughart House, c. 1957, (Old Fort Lowell) 5309 E. Fort Lowell Road, Tucson * Calle San Francisco House, 1957, 2820 N. Torino, Tucson. * Joesler-Loerpabel House Addition, c. 1958: Josias Joesler 2nd House. W. H. Loerpabels Addition, 306 N Longfellow Ave., Tucson * S. Bayard Colgate House, c. 1959, (Tucson, Arizona) Published in Sunset Magazine, 1963. * James F. Eager Speculative House, 1959, 4100 N. Avenida Cazador, Flecha Caida Estates, Tucson, Arizona * John H. Jansen House, c. 1960 (Tucson, Arizona) Cardon, Charlotte, Arizona Daily Star, Jansens Adopted New Regional Concept in Home November 17, 1963, 33. * Daniel Davis House Addition, (Tucson, Arizona) 1963 * Nora Pickrell House, (Tucson, Arizona) c. 1965 * Barton Cross House, Cloud Road (Tucson, Arizona) 1969 * Henry Hitchcock House, East Miramar Drive, Tucson Country Club, (Tucson, Arizona) 1972 * Germaine Cheruy and René Cheruy House Additions (Old Fort Lowell), 3031 N. Craycroft, Tucson

References

*Turner, Teresa, The People of Fort Lowell, Fort Lowell Historic District Board *Arizona Daily Star, Artist, Designer Veronica Hughart Dies of Cancer, 4 August 1977

External links

Work in Old Fort Lowell
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hughart, Veronica 1907 births 20th-century American painters Artists from Tucson, Arizona 1977 deaths 20th-century American architects Architects from Tucson, Arizona 20th-century American women painters