Stevens House

Stevens House is part of the Tucson Museum in Arizona, the house was the home of Hiram Stevens who came to Tucson in 1865 and purchased the property which housed Duffield House which was joined to Stevens's house by a long corridor.

The house is now known as Palice Pavilion and features works from the Tucson Museums Art of Latin America collection along with pieces from pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial eras along with contemporary folk art.

Stevens was known in Tucson for his business savvy ways and his success in politics with the state legislature and local government. When he was looking for someone to do his laundry he met his wife, after finally winning approval from her grandmother they married when she was 18.

Hiram Stevens gained a reputation for doing things the 'big western way'; he entertained in grand style and hosted many political parties and town weddings.

Stevens shot and killed himself in 1893 when his businesses began to fail, he attempted to shoot his wife first, and she was saved due to the heavy Spanish comb that she wore in her hair. She inherited the house, property and some stock in the failing hardware store that Hiram Stevens owned.