Multifamily Living in Midcentury Modern Phoenix

After the initial postwar housing boom, marketing for housing in Uptown Phoenix on both east and west sides clear out to the 40's turned from single-family homes toward multifamily housing. Apartment buildings and this new concept called condominiums began to show up in glamorous late-50s advertising. Below are a few gems unearthed by Modern Phoenix and our research at The Phoenix City office of Historic Preservation, with shots of the dwellings today.

La Mirada

The Palmaire

Multifamily along Maryland

The Monarch / Olympus, Mulberry and Embassy Square by Chopas & Starkovich

Pueblo Bonita Today near La Grande Orange and the Boardwalk

Paiute Apartments Today

Casa Moderna Today

Compare to door numbering at Executive Towers

Grandview Gardens Today

Note connection to Casa Moderna.

Central Park West

The Boardwalk by Al Beadle

Al Beadle's Executive Towers

Villa Verde near La Grande Orange and The Boardwalk

8000 and 8008 N. Central Ave aka Two West and Ten West Northern

Moroccan Apartments by Al Beadle

La Milagrosa

arc was recently rejuvenated by Helix Properties

Avenida Hermosa by Haver Nunn and Jensen. These complexes are found valleywide.
View a renovation of the complex's model home.

Park Lee Alice by Ralph Haver and then ? ? ?





Regency House by Ralph Haver & Associates






Sands East by E. T. Wright

Sources: Arizona Builder / Architect, The Arizona Republic, Maricopa County Recorder's Office, Point West