Tucson Citizen excerpt, 1941

Tucson now has one of the finest residential apartments in the southwest in the El Encanto apartments recently completed near the intersection of East Sixth Street and Treat Avenue.

Conveniently furnished and with every possible modern convenience built into the apartments, El Encanto apartments furnish modern living with a flavor.

The apartments include 44 units, 28 of which are in four-room suites and 16 in five-room suites. For those who wish to bring their own furniture, there are 14 unfurnished apartments, with all built-in conveniences of the apartments which are furnished.

—Tucson Citizen excerpt, 1941

"You’ll Enjoy Modern Living With Flavor... at EL ENCANTO APARTMENTS in TUCSON"

"Arizonas finest, and you'll also enjoy Tucson's past as the outpost of a great Spanish empire…as a frontier crossroads where American bad men fought and died…as the center of a still flourishing cattle industry.

In the midst of Southern Arizona’s desert beauty...with the atmosphere of a colorful past still clinging to the city…with the spirit of free and easy living everywhere…how can anyone fail to find a new freedom and a greater pleasure here?

El Encanto Apartments located just two miles east of downtown Tucson in a beautiful residential district...faces the famous Santa Catalina Mountains to the north."

—Advertisement, 1940s

Alvina Himmel Edmondson

From the homesteaded land El Encanto Condominiums were built upon to its conversion, El Encanto has a history of associations with some very unique and significant individuals. It was built upon a tract of land purchased from Alvina Himmel Edmondson, a pioneering Tucson who along with her husband Charles S. Edmondson homesteaded 160 acres in 1897. Near by Himmel Park is named after her.

—Enchanted Place, 1994