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Through her father’s company she met her husband, Dwight B. Heard. Dwight and Maie married in 1893 and in 1895 they made the decision to move out West due to issues with Dwight’s health, finally settling in Phoenix, Arizona. [5]
During his time as an employee, Heard met his wife, Maie Bartlett, (1868–1951) while being mentored by Adolphus Bartlett (1844–1922), the father of Maie. In 1893, they were married. Just one year later, the couple moved to Arizona after Heard was diagnosed with lung ailments.
Maie Bartlett Heard had that courage in abundance and saw the Heard Museum through its first 22 years. Her civic activities are well documented in the many awards she received in her later years prior to her death on March 14, 1951—22 years to the day after Dwight Heard’s passing.
Maie Bartlett Heard and Dwight Bancroft Heard collected Indigenous art on their world travels, and in the early 1920s, they decided to share their collection with the public in a museum they would build adjacent to their home.
Maie Bartlett Heard and Dwight Heard. Dwight Heard was working at a department store in Chicago when he met and married the boss’s daughter, Maie Bartlett, in 1893. Maie was born June 11, 1868, in Chicago and studied at an elite finishing school prior to her marriage.
The Heard Museum was founded in 1929 by Dwight B. and Maie Bartlett Heard to house their personal collection of art. Much of the archaeological material in the Heards' collection came from La Ciudad Indian ruin, which the Heards purchased in 1926 at 19th and Polk streets in Phoenix.
Dwight Bancroft Heard was an art collector and newspaperman. Heard and and his wife Maie Bartlett Heard founded the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona (1929). Dwight became an active businessman in the young community.
