Old House Journal

ON Via Rotunda A SPANISH COLONIAL RESCUE

ENTRY TOWER

The door’s privacy screen is custom, circles symbolizing interconnected family members standing together. The motif repeats in inlays in the floor.

The makeover of an abandoned 1940 house in Tucson involved saving original elements, removing a poor 1980s addition—and

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