BUILDING A LOG HOUSE FOR THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR In May, 1864, this site was a knoll which sloped eastward toward Granite Creek and was covered with Ponderosa pine trees. Those trees became the logs, boards and roof shingles of this house, the territorial governor's home. Construction took four months and cost $6,000. This exhibit shows, step by step, how that house was built. Samuel Blair built the Mansion for Territorial Secretary Richard McCormick and Territorial Governor John Goodwin. Daniel Hatz, John Raible, Philip Sheerer, and W. P. Blair worked on the project. Hatz, Sheerer and Raible became prominent Prescott citizens. W. P. Blair is known only from a pencil signature on a Mansion log. Governor's Mansion, about 1865. Model by Robert W. Fields, Jr. Scale: 1/2 inch = 1 foot.
