The Powder Box Church

A private home now, fashioned from blasting powder boxes. The old school is at the top of the frame, today an artist school.
The rain started 15 minutes or so after this shot so down the hill we went and headed for home.

"Powder Box Church located in Jerome, Arizona gets its name from its unique construction. The building was built by Sabino Gonzales in 1939 with stucco, wire mesh and blasting powder boxes. The congregation of the church aided in the building. The church was completed during 1941.

The families of the Powder Box Church were Mexican American mining families that were victims of racial prejudice from the Anglo Methodists. The Methodists would not allow the Mexicans to enter their church so Gonzalez built one from wooden blasting powder boxes that had been disassembled."