The Presidio Inn Bed & Breakfast IS authentic Tucson. A real 1886 Victorian adobe example of high-class 19th century Territorial architecture. I want you to experience this unique home for several reasons:
It is not a replica. This was the home of a wealthy family living in a dusty village on the outer edge of the American frontier more than 125 years ago. This at a time when most people here lived in shacks, tents, or dirty, dreary boarding houses.
The whole house, including each guest room, is furnished in period, but with modern facilities (think microwave oven & low-flush toilet).
Along with other mansions on Main Avenue, some of which have survived (see our video about the Corbett House just down the street), the home of the Julius Kruttschnitt family is on the street that the less fortunate called “Snob Hollow”. Envy might have had something to do with the term, ya’ think? Take a tour by horse carriage to this quiet historic neighborhood.
The Presidio Inn is located within easy walking distance to some of Tucson’s most historic places, such as the 1776 Spanish Presidio (fort), built to protect Spanish settlers and local Papago Indians from the terror of Apache raiding parties.
It is also located within easy walking distance to a couple of my favorite downtown restaurants.
In Patti Tuci, you have a first-rate Innkeeper. Full breakfast in the morning. A fountain of local knowledge. Been the Innkeeper for more than a quarter century. You can’t help but like Patti.
Oh, and did I mention the central courtyard. Hidden paradise only a few blocks from city center.
Forgive me, but I suggested to Patti that she raise her prices. Not because I think you don’t deserve a great deal. You do. Not because I think Innkeepers are under-paid and deserve greater profits. They do. But because I’m afraid you will see Patti’s prices and think “This can’t be real.” It is real. And a great value.
Excerpt from Thompson Family Genealogy
By the time Patti Toci and her husband bought the Julius Kruttschnitt, Jr., house in Tucson, previous owners had taken virtually everything the family had left behind. Then, one day in the 1960s, a remodeling crew opened a plaster wall and discovered a small piece of uncrumpled paper behind the lathe.
“It was a receipt,” Patti remembers, “from a department store in 1917, for $3.50 for a ’good’ pair of shoes. That must have been a lot of money to pay for shoes back then. There were detailed instructions to deliver the shoes around the back of the house. Marie Kruttschnitt (Marie Rose Pickering) had even signed her name. That’s the way you bought goods from a department store in those days–they were delivered.”
El Presidio Inn Bed & Breakfast
297 North Main Avenue
Tucson Arizona 85701
520-623-6151
800-349-6151
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