WHAT: A four-bedroom, four-bath adobe HOW MUCH: $495,000 SIZE: 3,354 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $147.58 SETTING: This rustic house is in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, near the northeast edge of Tucson. The neighborhood is a sparsely populated community of winding roads lined with desert shrubs, flowers and a variety of cactuses, including the saguaro for which the region is known. Most of the houses in this part of the foothills are from the 1940s and 1950s, built on three- and four-acre lots. Grocery stores, pharmacies, service stations and the like are about two miles away. INSIDE: The adobe house was built in 1956 and renovated by its current owners within the past eight years. They refinished its brick and concrete-tile ...
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