Elevation and Architectural Details

Here, at last, is a home that dares to make a statement. The image of the Phoenix, a Thunderbird, vast, fierce and fearless, is too much betrayed by our architecture. Our homes are small and shy, aspiring only to a blandness and uniformity of form and finish. This home, by contrast, is outstanding – it stands out from the crowd. The style is called Adobe Revival. It's built from concrete block, but it was designed to look like the Classic Adobe homes of the Southwest. It was built in 1936, the depths of the Great depression, when only a few dozen homes were built in all of Phoenix. Even so, it stands on a poured concrete slab, rather than a foundation. By 1940, this would be a common practice in Phoenix, but in 1936 a slab was a radical innovation. Everywhere you look on the exterior of this home, you see the signs of an active mind – thoughtful details, exquisite ornament, the shape of antiquity with every comfort modernity demands. Where other historic homes were built – rigged, even – this home was designed. This is not a haphazard one-off precursor to a tract home. This is a one-of-a-kind treasure, an experience unrepeatable in Phoenix – or anywhere.

These exterior photos were taken at different hours of the day, so that you might see how the structure interacts with the irrepressible sunlight of the desert.

The Front Yard is landscaped to the curb, an uncommon touch.