John “the Miller” Sievers in front of his house in Tempe, Arizona (circa 1912?)
TEMPE
HISTORICAL PROPERTY SURVEY (HPS-155)
John "The Miller" Sievers House
Location: 116 W. 6th Street, Tempe, Arizona
Year Built: 1905
Architectural Style: National Folk
Research has disclosed little information about this house. It appears to have been built between 1901 and 1911, according to the Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. maps. The house was occupied by the John Sievers family from 1912 through 1923. Sievers was known as John the Miller, and had lived in Tempe since the 1870s. Sievers was an experienced German miller who was hired by Charles Hayden to set up the machinery for the original flour mill in 1871. He was in charge of the Hayden Mill operations for many years. Sievers died in 1925.
This frame and clapboard house was one story in height with a medium-pitched roof on the main portion of the house and a low-pitched roof on the rock addition on the front. The addition replaced an earlier frame porch or veranda, and extended beyond the full length of the front façade. Windows in the addition were casement; house windows were double-hung. The gable of the main house was clapboard. An enclosed lean-to porch was at the rear of the house. A single-leaf entry was located in the east façade. An exterior chimney was located at the west façade, and a central chimney protruded from the east slope of the main roof. The house was demolished in the 1980s.
Information from "Tempe Historic Property Survey", Tempe
Historical Museum
(http://www.tempe.gov/museum/hps155.htm)
John
Sievers
Birth year 1851
Death year 1925
Biographical narative:
An experienced German Miller who was hired by Charles Hayden in 1871 to set
up the machinery for the original flour mill, and was in charge of the Hayden
Mill operation for many years.
He was a miller for A. J. Peters and Co. in 1906.
He became a naturalized citizen in 1876, in Los Angeles, California.
Lived at 7th St. and Willow (now College) in 1892; lived at 8th St. and
Myrtle, c1892-1899; lived on Mill Ave. in 1910; lived at 116 W. 6th
St.,1912-1923.
Years of residence in Tempe: 1871-1923.
Sources:
Carl Hayden, Charles Trumbull Hayden: Arizona Pioneer
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal Census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
HPS-155
Maricopa County Great Register, 1882
Tempe CD,1892-1920
Katrina
D. Sievers
Birth year 1846
Washerwoman
Lived on Mill Ave in 1910.
Years of residence in Tempe:1890-1923
Sources:
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Tempe CD, 1892-1920
