# Acadia Ranch

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The **Acadia Ranch**, now the **Acadia Ranch Museum** and home of the **Oracle Historical Society**,[2] at 825 E. Mt. Lemmon Highway[2] in [Oracle](/source/Oracle,_Arizona) in [Pinal County, Arizona](/source/Pinal_County,_Arizona), is a historic ranch complex built up during 1885 to 1930.[3] A portion of the ranch was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1984. The listing included two [contributing buildings](/source/Contributing_buildings): the Acadia Ranch House and an outbuilding which includes a smokehouse and a garage. It also included a [contributing structure](/source/Contributing_structure): a [water tower](/source/Water_tower).[1][3]

The property was developed as a lodging house for travelers and summer visitors in the 1880s by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Dodge, in partnership with a Jack Aldwinkle. One room served as Oracle's U.S. Post Office from 1985 to 1901. The Dodges had previously operated a lodging house in Tucson, which is 35 miles (56 km) to the south; the Oracle location, at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,400 m) in the foothills of the [Santa Catalina Mountains](/source/Santa_Catalina_Mountains), is markedly cooler.[3]

The Acadia Ranch House, the main house of the ranch, faces north on E. Mt. Lemmon Highway, a principal street through Oracle, which, in 1984, was [Arizona State Route 77](/source/Arizona_State_Route_77) (AZ 77).[3][4] The AZ 77 highway was rerouted in 1964, and now goes around Oracle on the north; E. American Avenue, very close to the house, is also known as Old Highway 77.[4]

The main house is a one-story L-shaped building incorporating a five-room [adobe](/source/Adobe) original area about 29x40 ft m in plan, and frame, stone, and adobe additions. It has a shed-roofed porch on its north side, facing the street, and extending around the west side, unifying the north elevation. The north side consists of the adobe and stucco core (built in two phases ca. 1880's), a breezeway, and a one-room adobe structure (ca. 1915) to the east.

The Acadia Ranch [water tower](/source/Water_tower) is a contributing structure, southeast of the main house. It is about 12x12 ft m in plan and is upon a small hill.[3]

The complex was deemed "historically significant for its association with a regional industry oriented towards health and tourism. Also, the Ranch is architecturally significant, within a local context, for its use of adobe as the primary building material. The main house is also important for its evolutionary additive character which reflects its increased use as both a guest ranch and a health resort."[3]

The smoke house or "ice house" once had four-foot thick adobe walls, which "melted" over the years. This was restored in a project completed in 2013.[5]

The Oracle Historical Society is a [501c3 charitable nonprofit](/source/501c3_charitable_nonprofit) founded in 1977.[6]

## References

1. ["Acadia Ranch Museum".](http://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/museum.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20131021080845/http://oraclehistoricalsociety.org/museum.html) October 21, 2013 at the Wayback Machine [Oracle Historical Society.](http://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/index.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130406013457/http://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/index.html) April 6, 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2013-09-14.

1. Bill Perreault (December 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Acadia Ranch". [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service). Retrieved August 31, 2021. With

1. Google maps

1. ["Oracle Historical Society / Acadia Ranch Museum: Restorations"](https://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/restorations/). Retrieved September 2, 2021.

1. ["Oracle Historical Society / Acadia Ranch Museum: About Us"](https://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/). Retrieved September 2, 2021.

## External links

- [Oracle Historical Society](https://www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org/)

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