A National Historic Landmark, San Xavier Mission was founded as a Catholic mission by Father Eusebio Kino in 1692. Construction of the current church began in 1783 and was completed in 1797.

The Hovenweep inhabitants began building larger pueblo residential complexes over 800 years ago. . The stone course pueblos and towers of the Hovenweep people exhibit expert masonry skills and engineering. The builders did not level foundations for their structures, but adapted construction designs to the uneven surfaces of rock slabs.

Tucson barrio adobe store front .

Founded by Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in January 1691, Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori was the first mission to be located in what is now Arizona, and was part of the global Spanish mission system of colonization that attempted to create a self-sufficient agricultural community, convert local Indians to the Catholic religion, and generate revenue for Spain.

Niches in the church at the mission in Tumacacori held specific saints for people to pray too. The church was built in 1756 and still stands at Tumacacori National Historic Park.

Barrio Viejo, also known as “Barrio Libre”, is a neighborhood that is located downtown in Tucson, Arizona. Many parts of the Barrio were destroyed in the mid to late 1900’s, but some have survived and makes up the neighborhood as it stands now. Today, Barrio Viejo has one of the largest collection of 19th century adobe buildings in the US.

Just south of downtown Tucson is Barrio Viejo, a reminder of the city's Hispanic-and-adobe-past. One of the most eye-catching building in the Barrio is Teatro Carmen. This building opened May, 20 1915 and was founded by Carmen Soto Vasquez. It was an important cultural and artistic center for Spanish speakers in Tucson and it hosted performers from Spain, and Mexico.

The Santa Cruz Catholic Church is a historic church in Tucson, Arizona. It was designed by Bishop Henry Granjon of Tucson and built between 1916 and 1918. The Santa Cruz Catholic Church, or Santa Cruz for short, is significant for its construction using unstabilized mud-adobe bricks made in the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. It is also the largest known mud-adobe building in Arizona.

Mission San Xavier del Bac (Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino in the center of a centuries-old settlement of the Sobaipuri O'odham, a branch of the Akimel or River O'odham located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River. The mission was named for Francis Xavier, a Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) in Europe.

Nuestra Señora de Luz is a small adobe chapel built between 1880 and 1891 for the people of Cañoncito near Pecos.The chapel, altered very little since its inception, represents a time when Cañoncito was the last stop for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail before reaching Santa Fe. The tiny chapel was serviced by a visiting priest who traveled from Pecos to say Mass.

Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans.Between AD 900 and 1150, Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America until the 19th century.

Twin Towers structures with Little Ruin Canyon in background
Twin Towers is part of the Square Tower Group, Hovenweep.