A historic home built in the 1800s in downtown Tucson has reopened its doors after more than two years of renovations.
The Sosa-Carrillo House, located off Broadway and Granada, has seen Tucson change for generations. Built in the late 1870s, the home is one of three buildings from Tucson’s barrio landscape that was saved during urban renewal in the 1960s.
“If our buildings are destroyed, if our spaces of congregation that mean something to us as Mexican-Americans are gone, or we don’t have access to those places anymore, the memories are forgotten, and when we forget the memories, those traditions go with them,” Alisha Vasquez said…