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Ten houses make up the residence area located on McCormick Road. The dormitory area was constructed in 1950 and holds nearly 1300 students. Although older and lacking in modern amenities compared to "New Dorms," Old Dorms are closer to Central Grounds and contain larger rooms.
The McCormicks were pioneers in introducing irrigation techniques that turned arid land into fertile grounds for agriculture and later, residential development. The vision for McCormick Ranch was bold: to create a balanced mix of homes, parks, and businesses while preserving the natural beauty intrinsic to the area.
One couple, Drew and Ilyssa Reading, moved to a single-family home in McCormick Ranch in June 2021. They met at the University of Arizona in 2009, married in 2015 and have two children, Kate, almost 5 and Oliver, almost 3. They lived in the Arcadia area of Phoenix for seven years prior.
- Arizona Biltmore
- Taliesin West
- ASU Gammage
- First Christian Church
- Raymond Carlson House
- Benjamin Adelman House
- David and Gladys Wright House
- Arthur Pieper House
- Boomer Cottage
- Harold Price House
Where:2400 W. Missouri Ave., Phoenix. Built:1929. Tours: 90-minute tours are available at 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, free to guests and $10 for visitors. 602-955-6600, arizonabiltmore.com. Architect Albert Chase McArthur was a protégé of Wright and also a brother to two of the entrepreneurs who opened the resort. Wright consulted ...
Where:12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale. (GPS address: 12345 N. Taliesin Drive.) Built:1937. Tours: Guided tours from one to three hours are held daily ($19-$75); reservations strongly recommended. 888-516-0811, franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west. Take the “virtual tour,” dubbed the Taliesin West Digital Experience, at franklloydwright....
Where:Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard, Tempe. Built:1964. Tours: By appointment. 480-965-5062, asugammage.com. Wright’s last public commission before his death in 1959 was a world-class concert hall for Arizona State University and a budding metropolis that needed some cultural cachet. Dubbed the “pink wedding cake” for its swooping silhouette, th...
Where:6750 N. Seventh Ave., Phoenix. Built:1973. Tours: By appointment. 602-246-9206, fccphx.com. ASU Gammage isn’t the only Wright design that got repurposed (and many never got built at all). In 1949, he got a commission to create a campus for Southwest Christian Seminary, but the Bible school closed the next year. First Christian Church bought t...
Where:Near 11th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, Phoenix. Built:1950. Named after the Arizona Highwayseditor for whom Wright designed it, the home was last sold in 2003 for $400,000.
Where:Near 30th Street and the Arizona Canal, Phoenix. Built:1951. It’s one of Wright’s “Usonian Automatic” housesmade from modular concrete blocks to keep expenses down. The idea was to offer DIY materials for war veterans, but like many of Wright’s ideas, that didn’t pan out; an architect was still required. Designed for a Milwaukee businessman, ...
Where:Near Camelback Road and 54th Street, Phoenix. Built:1952. Tours: Public tours have been suspended, but you can take a virtual tour, including video and 360-degree photos, at davidwrighthouse.org. Built for Wright’s son, this spiral design is the architect’s best-known private residence in Arizona, thanks in part to controversy. When a previou...
Where:Near 65th Street and Cheney Road, Paradise Valley. Built:1952. The second of two Usonian houses in the Valley, it was designed for one of Wright’s apprentices. But is it really still a Wright house after it was expanded to triple its original square footage (1,400 to 4,500)?
Where:Near 30th Street and the Arizona Canal, Phoenix. Built:1953. With lots of glass in off-kilter angles, this two-story parallelogram was conceived as a beach house in California, but the striking redwood eaves blend perfectly with the landscape. Named for Jorgine Boomer, who had been co-owner (with her late husband, Lucius) of the famed Waldorf...
Where:Near Tatum Boulevard and Clearwater Parkway, Paradise Valley. Built:1955. The biggest (and maybe grandest) of Wright’s Arizona houses, it was the winter home of MaryLou and Harold Price, a businessman who inherited the Popsicle brand from his dad and commissioned Wright’s tallest design, the Price Tower, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Jun 25, 2016 · The Titus House (1892): This private residence, south of McDowell Road on the west side of Hayden Road, is the only remaining Victorian house in Scottsdale. The one-story brick house was built by ...
From the committee: “It is my pleasure to inform you that Historic Homes in the Heart of Phoenix, has been selected to receive a 2022 Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honor Award. On behalf of the State Historic Preservation Office and the Arizona Preservation Foundation, I wish to thank you for the contribution you have made to the preservation of Arizona’s unique heritage!”
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