FEATURE STORIES

• NEW! The Scoville House by Blaine Drake: A Requiem in Shades of Grey. How Phoenix lost a rare custom home to marketing, monsoon and miscommunication.

• THIS JUST IN! Photos of the Scoville House months before demolition

• NEW Tearing down the Arcadia / Camelback Legacy: What can YOU do about it?

MIDCENTURY MODERN REMODELS

• NEW! The Hobza + Bageant remodel in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove

• NEW! Jazz Standard, Track 2: Original Photos of The Lorna House. View Shawn Kaffer's Haver home before it was transformed into a modern gem.

• UPDATE! The Mather + Dye and Leckman residences in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove have both progressed since the 2007 home tour.

KNOW-HOW

• NEW! Research your midcentury modern home using primary sources. A visual guide by Alison King with 50 minutes of audio by John Jacquemart

• UPDATE! Locate the city's best midcentury modern neighborhoods and buildings using our spiffy interactive map. Tons of new properties and neighborhoods were added this season!

THE GOOD LIFE: CUSTOM HOMES

• NEW! The Southern slope of Camelback Mountain cradles some Modern masterpieces

• NEW! A brief survey of Modernism in the prestigious Arcadia neighborhood

• UPDATE! Tons of fresh photos of Marion Estates including original photos and ads from the late 1950s.

• UPDATE! Fresh photos and midcentury ads for Tonka Vista, preferred neighborhood for many of Phoenix's architects, builders and engineers

• NEW! Ingleside Club near the Arizona Country Club

• NEW! The Tierra del Sol enclave featuring homes by Killingsworth, Beadle and Woldridge.

• NEW! A dead end in the San Souci enclave hides away a Blaine Drake home near the Biltmore

MULTIFAMILY LIVING

• NEW! A Survey of Multifamily Condos and Apartments in Central and Uptown Phoenix, featuring great design by familiar architects. Produced using resources compiled by the Historic Preservation Office of the City of Phoenix.

• NEW! Pueblo Bonita -- Haver, Nunn & Collamer designed duplexes and multifamily living just a stone's throw from LGO

• NEW! Central Park West by Michael Defiel, featuring "The Atrium Everyone is Talking About!"

• UPDATE! A charming ad for the Pierre in Phoenix's uptown garden apartments

• UPDATE! Multifamily Apartments and Condos on Maryland

• UPDATE! Park Fifth Avenue apartment rendering near Park Central Mall

TRACT NEIGHBORHOOD UPDATES

• UPDATE! John Sing Tang home ad in Rancho del Monte

• UPDATE! An ad for Sunview Estates

• UPDATE! Ad for Allied Builders in Royal Palms

• NEW! Hoffmantown -- More info sought about these cute little homes!

• UPDATE! John F. Long takes the cake for marketing Maryvale Terrace. Includes original ads and the mysterious Russian Home!

MATERIALS + METHODS

• UPDATE! Midcentury ads about fence designs used in Phoenix plus several updates of modern fence sightings — check all four pages!

• UPDATE! More Superlite block ads from its heyday

EVENTS

• UPDATE! Photos from the 2008 Home Tour Afterparty with Desert Living at Design Within Reach

LOST IN STUCCOVILLE? Try our new interactive map of Modern Phoenix neighborhoods, vintage retailers and architectural landmarks. We have over 125 destinations and 3 driving tours programmed in for you! You can still download the old PDF of the 2006 Top Ten neighborhoods here [304k PDF file]

RALPH HAVER TRACT NEIGHBORHOODS

• UPDATE! Ralph Haver's Windemere neighborhood is looking better than ever. All new up-to-the-minute photos.

• UPDATE! Primary source advertisements about Ralph Haver's Town and Country Homes in Scottsdale

• UPDATE! Hokey ad for homes in Marlen Grove

• UPDATE! Ralph Haver's Town and Country homes in Janet Manor and surrounding streets

• UPDATE! Ad for Town and Country Manor in Rancho Ventura

• UPDATE! Northwood by Ralph Haver, featuring "the Princess", the home that 500 housewives built

• UPDATE! Finally, some good photos and ads of Ralph Haver's Janet Manor

COMMERCIAL AND CIVIC BUILDINGS

• NEW! 1960s coverage of the award-winning Phoenix Municipal complex by Ralph Haver in downtown Phoenix by Arizona Architect magazine by the AZ AIA.

• UPDATE! Fred Guirey's office and Haver's Entz-White lumber joins the legends along Architects Row

• NEW! The Triangle Building -- still a mystery who designed it, and still a head-turner.

• NEW! A Student's-eye view of their brand new high school, Ralph Haver's Coronado High. From the 1967 Cononado High yearbook themed "Our Town".

HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR LAST ISSUE

• Holy Houses! Midcentury Modern Churches from the Iconic Age of Phoenix

• Dress it up: Flooring options for midcentury modern concrete floors

• Modern Phoenix Home Tour + Expo 2008 member photos and event wrap-up

• Central Arizona AIA Home Tour 2008

• Phoenix Contemporary Design Fair 2008

• Save-a-Haver! What happens when a savvy MoPho acquires Ralph Haver's own family home without the sellers knowing it? Pure ModPhx Magic.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR FORUMS

Not sure what the forums are all about? We've created this primer of essential reading on our message boards that illustrate the kind of in-the-trenches community activism that the ModPhx community embodies. Education, urban planning, architecture, neighborhood associations, real estate, historic preservation, DIY and gentrification are all addressed here with a healthy sense of humor. And pigeons. Boy, do we have pigeons.

• Save-a-Haver! What happens when a savvy buyer acquires Ralph Haver's own family home without the sellers knowing it? Pure ModPhx Magic.

• Reinventing the The Lorna House. Ongoing discussion since 2004 about the role of the architect, whether architecture is supposed to be transcendent, and why Haver Homes are so darn neat.

• Just when you thought all was lost, Project White Gates kicks it up again. Find out what happens when a dozen strangers stop being complacent and start getting real (serious) about saving one of Al Beadle's early family homes.

• Are Haver Homes Post and Beam? Our community attempts to collectively settle this topic once and for all. Lavishly illustrated.

• Anyone Else Sick and Tired of this Crap?
  Conversation explodes in outrage over midcentury ranches being leveled and built upon in Arcadia and across the city.

• The Battle for 44th and Camelback
  It's been a long and tough battle, but we finally made an impact in preservation of Frank Henry's Valley National Bank design. The new condo proposal is DENIED by City Council. Read all about it here.
  

• The MoPho SinkHo
  Find out what happens when a 60 year old cesspit septic system collapses in your backyard. Laugh out loud hilarious.

• Be Careful what you Wish For
  Longtime ModPhx members Michael and Stacy boldly go from bad to worse on their master bedroom renovation.

• Washburn Piano Building Slated to be Demolished
  Watch the story of Washburn unfold from the first mention of its threatened status in 2005 until the building's demolition in March of 2007. Includes gory photos of the demo at the end.

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