While traveling in Mexico in 1990, someone loaned us a Barbara Kingsolver novel with a Judy Perry postcard of Bisbee used as a page marker. Intrigued by the quaint scene Judy portrayed, we decided to visit Bisbee several months later. My partner Brett, who has a passion for restoring old things, was drawn to the Allen Block Building, and the vision of bringing it back to life. We purchased the building in 1991.When we acquired the property it was mostly vacant, with several boarded up windows and years of neglect. It was also home to a healthy colony of Mexican free-tailed bats. The renovation of the building took a full six years and would never have been completed without the help of friends and family. In the process 22 tons of debris were removed from the third story alone. Every effort was made to restore the upper level, now Canyon Rose Suites, into the apartments they resembled in years past, with the exception of Suite 8, which was given a more modern feel. The lower two levels of the building were intended for retail use, and remain in the configuration we found them in when we started the project. Every effort was also made to reuse salvageable material found either in the building or in the surrounding communities. On January 1, 2000, Canyon Rose Suites welcomed her first guests to celebrate the new millennium.
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