THE MARION ESTATES ISSUE
PART I OF II

COVER STORY

• NEW! Ard Hoyt's House of Light in Marion Estates was intended to exploit "All Electric Living" when electricity was cheap and abundant in his Gold Medallion Homes.

NEIGHBORHOODS

• NEW! 50 fun photos by fans on this year's home tour in Marion Estates. Bandwidth alert: This page is very image heavy!
• NEW! Jacob Lichner was the 2012 Photographer of Record for homes on this year's annual home tour. See his take on three of the homes.
• UPDATE! The Marion Estates neighborhood is an enclave of custom, semi-custom and tract homes near the head of Camelback Mountain at 44th Street and Stanford Drive. The neighborhood was built out from 1952 through the early 1960s and features homes by Blaine Drake, Ralph Haver, Al Beadle, and more. This update features fresh new photography for 2012, and next month will include a neighborhood history.
• NEW! Student Shelters are a practical part of the architecture curriculum at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West

CUSTOM HOMES

• NEW! Article about the Buena Terror on AZCentral
• NEW! Video of the Buena Terror in Marion Estates by Allan Gruber.
• NEW! Video of The Admiral Holcomb House by Blaine Drake AIA, filmed by Fox 10.
• NEW! Flickr photosets from the Modern Phoenix Home Tours using the modphx, modernphoenix and modern phoenix tags.
• UPDATE! The Evertson House in Marion Estates by Ralph Haver, a rare two-story "Swedish Modern" home.