Dr. William Austin Cannon had this house built during 1904-1905. He was the first resident botanist with the Carnegie Desert Laboratory in 1902, and worked there until 1926. Dr. Cannon sold the house in 1913 to Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an astronomer, who in 1896 had located the site for Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Dr. Douglass, founder of dendrochronology, also built the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. Due to his early leadership, the University of Arizona is one of the world's leading institutions in the science of astronomy and dendrochronology.

Spanish Translation Marker:
Residencia de los Profesores
Cannon Y DouglassEsta casa fu? constru?da en 1904-05 por el Profesor Dr. William Austin Cannon, primer bot?nico del Laboratorio Carnegie del Desierto y ocupante de aquel puesto desde 1902 hasta 1926. En 1913, vendi? la casa al Profesor Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, conocido astronomo que hab?a establecido el Observatorio Lowell de Flagstaff en 1896. Douglass, fundador de la ciencia dendrocronolog??, Tamb?en supervis? la construccion del Observatorio Stewart. Gracias a su influencia original la Universidad de Arizona llego a ser reconocido mundialmente en los campos cientificos de astronomi? y cient?ficos de astronomi? y dendrocronolog?

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