a blog by Peter Leonard
People go to Bisbee, Arizona for a lot of reasons — to retire and buy house a house high on a hill with no road access, or just to enjoy coffee at the Bisbee Coffee Company. But I think the most interesting thing in Bisbee is the architecture. Here’s the beautiful Bisbee Mercantile, moderne in the middle of the desert:
Inside, you’ll find the original light fixtures, made out of streamlined copper:
There’s no shortage of other interesting buildings either, such as this stucco arts-and-crafts theater that wouldn’t look out of place in Berkeley:
Of course we should remember where all the wealth came from that built Bisbee — both the copper itself, as well as the capital that arose from it:
