Phelps Dodge General Office Building

This was the room Bisbee's copper was run from. From 1895 to 1961, the building served as Phelps Dodge's general office for its Bisbee operations, the administrative center of one of the country's great copper districts. When the corporation gave it to the city in 1971, Bisbee turned the seat of company power into a public one: today it holds the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate. The building's second life lets visitors read the mining story from inside the office that once directed it.

What the plaque says

Phelps Dodge General Office Building. , This building was the general office for the Bisbee operations of Phelps Dodge Corporation from 1895 to 1961., In 1971 it was given to the City of Bisbee by Phelps Dodge and was designated as a National Historic Site by the National Park Service., The building has been converted to a civic center and mining and historical museum by the Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bisbee — steps away
  Queen of the Copper Camps — and the deportation it tried to forget
• Tombstone — 21 mi
  The silver strike named for a death that never came

More markers nearby

• Copper Queen Plaza — steps away
• Brewery Gulch — steps away
• Votes for Women — steps away
• Bisbee City Fire Hall — steps away