Arcadia Historic Residential Property Survey, Phoenix, Arizona

Woodward Architectural Group

From summary: "n August 1993, the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office contracted with the Woodward Architectural Group to conduct Phase III of the Phoenix: Rural and Estate Architectural Survey. The Woodward Architectural Group complete Phase I of this project in August 1991. Phase I entailed identifying and documenting early farmsteads, ranches and their associated structures, as well as rural estate development associated with late nineteenth and early twentieth century agricultural development in Phoenix. The geographic area for Phase I included the 422 square miles within the present city limits of Phoenix... The purpose of Phase II, completed in June 1993 by the Woodward Architectural Group, was to update 40 of the 158 Historic Property Inventory Forms generated in Phase I. The 40 properties were located within the North Central A venue Corridor of Phoenix... The intention of Phase III of this project was to further utilize the vast amount of historic research generated in Phase II. To that end, 20 additional inventory forms, representing rural estate properties in the Arcadia District of Phoenix, were chosen to be updated. For the purposes of this survey, Arcadia was defined by the boundaries set forth in the original 1919 Arcadia plat. Generally, these boundaries are defined by Lafayette Boulevard to the south, Rockridge Road to the north, 44th Street to the west, and Scottsdale Road to the east. However, portions of the 1919 Arcadia plat, specifically that area east of Invergordon Road, are presenting within the city limits of the City of Scottsdale, and therefore not included in this survey. Twenty buildings, documented on inventory forms, along with related historic context information, are presented in this report. It is recommended that all 20 of those buildings are potentially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and the Phoenix Historic Property Register. The Arcadia District was targeted in Phase III for two reasons. First, Arcadia represents one of the best collections of rural estate residences constructed after the completion of the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix and the Salt River Valley. Second, a significant amount of the historic newspaper documentation generated in Phase II was associated with buildings in Arcadia. It should be noted that the 20 buildings documented in this report do not represent the entirety of the historic rural estate properties located in Arcadia. A complete list of these resources, as documented in Phase I of this project, is also included in this report." Project funding was provided in part by a 1992 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Sedona Historical Society administered by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 04-92-70050) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Arcadia Historic Residential Property Survey, Phoenix, Arizona

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