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Tract Neighborhoods
- NEW! All new photos of Star of Paradise in north Phoenix. Check out the progress that's been made by MoPhos in the years since we last photographed it!
- Sands West, a polyneisan themed subdivision by E.T. Wright
- The Pueblo Bonita neighborhood by Haver, Nunn and Collamer is chock full of triplexes and may be one of Phoenix's best-preserved 1960s neighborhoods. We've updated our page on the area with interior photos from two of the triplexes and all new exterior shots.
- Midcentury Homes in Sunnyslope that were featured on our 2011 home tour
- The four sections of Sunnyslope
- Paradise Gardens with homes designed (or not) by Al Beadle was the neighborhood for our 2010 Home Tour
- Piecing Together Paradise Gardens on its 50th Birthday. Al Beadle didn't want to be cited as the architect behind Paradise Gardens in North Phoenix, so why is he still getting credit 50 years later? David Tyda ventures out to set the record straight, and finds it's still kinda crooked.
- A windshield survey of Paradise Gardens
- The Paradise Gardens marketing brochure circa 1960, compares the model home illustrations to how the homes look today.
- The Howell Home 1960-1964. Shows what an original Paradise Gardens Saguaro Model looked like, including kitchen and bath!
- Tearing down the Arcadia / Camelback Legacy
- The Linder House, formerly on tour for Modern Phoenix in 2008, is ready for her close-up. This Shcreiber-designed tract home received a total rehab by Joe David at JoBuilt Construction.
- Rancho del Monte features John Sing Tang and Ralph Haver homes
- Sunview Estates along Bethany Home
- Hoffmantown is a large development near Chris-Town mall (now Spectrum)
- John F. Long takes the cake for marketing Maryvale Terrace. Includes original ads and the mysterious Russian Home!
- Village Grove in Scottsdale, site of the 2008 Modern Phoenix Home Tour
- Marion Estates neighborhood
- Chateau Thierry, a tranquil 1960s mountain commuity in North Phoenix
- Broadmor in Tempe
- Cavalier Campus in Tempe, sister 'hood to Cavalier Estates
- Papago Gardens at McKellips and 72nd Street
- Royal Palm 60s and 70s heaven in North Phoenix
- The Parade of Homes in north Phoenix circa 1956 and 1957, photographed 50 years later
- North Park Central between Indian School and Osborn at 7th Avenue
- A tour of a home in Cavalier Estates
- Cavalier Estates at 39th & Shea
- A Usonian / Danish Modern home at 13th & Maryland
- Mereway Manor at 78th Street & Roosevelt
- Park McDowell and Cox Hills at McDowell and Hayden
- Merriewood, the Mini-Modern Block that Could
- Hy-View, a late 60s early 70s development near Papago Peaks, one of the last gasps of great Arizona ranches
- Sun City ranches
- Star of Paradise ranches need some modern lovin'
- Park Central Mall Area
- Cactus Heights
- Papago Peaks
- Melrose and Woodlea Neighborhoods
- Miscellaneous Neighborhoods
Custom Homes
- NEW! The Rice House by Richard Neutra in Richmond, Virginia
- Our three tours for DoCoMoMo Weekend 2011 featured both custom homes and behind the scenes of commercial buildings.
- Marion Estates was a quiet little neighborhood in the middle of it all. Learn the history of this charming neighborhood and how it came to be a premier enclave of custom homes by some of the biggest designers in the Valley.
- 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.
- Sands West, a ployneisan themed subdivision by E.T. Wright
- Student Shelters are a practical part of the architecture curriculum at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
- The Shaffer residence by Ard Hoyt in Clearwater Hills
- 5302 Doubletree Ranch Road by Alfred Newman Beadle in 1955
- The Van Ess House from 1964 receives a landmark dedication in Arizona
- Architect DK Taylor settled down in Scottsdale and built a beautiful home in Paradise Valley. He even designed the Sandra Day O'Connor house, a work so distinctive it was disassembled brick by brick and rebuilt in Papago Park! Find out more about this obscure architect and his desert modern homes.
- The Mocine Residence, another 1946 Fred Guirey postwar brick home surfaces in Central Phoenix.
- A Howard Madole home in Sedona receives a total remodel and recognition from the National Trust for Historic Preservation as "This Place Matters" in first steps to designate Madole homes as design landmarks in Sedona. Includes video of Mr. Madole describing the good ol' days!
- Two classic custom homes in Tonka Vista, preferred neighborhood for many of Phoenix's Modern-era architects, builders and engineers
- The Scoville House by Blaine Drake: A Requiem in Shades of Grey. How Phoenix lost a rare custom home to marketing, monsoon and miscommunication.
- The Southern slope of Camelback Mountain cradles some Modern masterpieces
- A brief survey of Modernism in the prestigious Arcadia neighborhood
- Marion Estates including original photos and ads from the late 1950s.
- Tonka Vista, the preferred neighborhood for many of Phoenix's architects, builders and engineers
- Ingleside Club near the Arizona Country Club
- The Tierra del Sol enclave featuring homes by Killingsworth, Beadle and Woldridge.
- A dead end in the San Souci enclave hides away a Blaine Drake home near the Biltmore
- Sedona West and Madole Drive by Howard Madole
- A Madole home in Sedona
- The Cedar Street Residence and Pods by coLAB in Tempe
- William Wesley Peters's Focus House at Taliesin West
- Tucson AIA Home Tour 2004
- The Hall Residence under restoration in central Sunnyslope
Multifamily Residences
Ralph Haver Neighborhoods
- NEW! Find everything related to Haver in the Ralph Haver Archive
- NEW! Haverhoods: The definitive directory to all confirmed Ralph Haver neighborhoods we know of. If it's not in here, it's not confirmed.
- NEW! RARE! Vintage floorplans, materials cabinet layouts and exterior color schemes for Haver's Starlite Vista tract home plans
- NEW! All new photos of Starlite Vista by Ralph Haver
- NEW! Vintage photos of a home in Janet Manor in the 50s and 60s, aka Ralph Haver's Town and Country II in Uptown Phoen
- NEW! P.A.T. Homes in Tucson were stylishly designed by Haver for the typical American income
- NEW! Vintage ads from 1956 for Town and Country Manor, the first of four Town and Country tract home developments by Ralph Haver and Fred Woodward
- NEW! Golden Keys condominiums Phase 1 are credited to Ralph Haver's firm in 1961. What do you think, should they go historic?
- Country Club Apartments by Ralph Haver in the late 40s
- Pueblo Bonita -- Haver, Nunn & Collamer designed duplexes and multifamily living
- Marion Estates is home to many Ralph Haver custom and semi-custom homes.
- Park Lee Alice, originally designed by Ralph Haver, envisioned a meandering brook in the middle of West Central Phoenix. Now in the hands of the City of Phoenix, they plan to rehab it into affordable housing.
- A complete re-survey of Town and Country Scottadale reveals progress since being designated historic.
- Regents Park was Luxurious Living in the Shadow of Camelback Mountain and quite possibly featured some of the most affordable homes in the Arcadia area.
- Mayfair Manor finally receives a proper windshield survey.
- Town and Country Paradise is the last known example of Fred Woodward's Town and Country series, complete with more arid landscaping, port-cocheres instead of patio-ports and "Haver Block" a-plenty
- Thunderbird Country Club Estates is my best guess at the South Mountain properties so important to the Haver family. Wife Millie used to own property here. Decide for yourself.
- Southdale is the first subdivision that Ralph Haver designed in South Phoenix, 1948. Postwar starter homes.
- Ralph Haver's Windemere neighborhood is looking better than ever.
- Marlen Grove, the number one favorite neighborhood in our Top Ten Neighborhoods 2008 poll
- Ralph Haver's Town and Country homes in Janet Manor and surrounding streets
- Primary source advertisements about Ralph Haver's Town and Country Homes in Scottsdale
- Town and Country Manor in Rancho Ventura: Putting the 'hood back in Haverhood
- Ralph Haver's Town and Country at 78th Place and Oak in Scottsdale, the only midcentury modern neighborhood in our area that is designated Historic!
- The Rancho Ventura / Town & Country Fifty is Fab Home Tour event 2007, including audio of guest speaker panel.
- Northwood by Ralph Haver, featuring "The Princess"
- Finally, some good photos and ads of Ralph Haver's Janet Manor
- The Third Annual Modern Phoenix Home Tour in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove neighborhood
- Canal North, the first known Haverhood ever
- Multifamily housing designs by Ralph Haver
- The First Annual ModernPhoenix Neighborhood Home Tour in Ralph Haver's Windemere
- Tonka Vista, the midcentury Mecca where Ralph Haver and his contemporaries lived. Not all homes by Haver.
- Mayfair Manor @ 16th Street South of Bethany Home
- Starlite Vista: Ralph Haver Homes @ 15th Ave. and Glenn
- Growing up Haver: A Modern Phoenix Family Chronicle by Bucky Haver
Ralph Haver Renovations
Unconfirmed Ralph Haver Neighborhoods
These could also be Ralph Haver designed tract neighborhoods. However, hard documentation has yet to surface.
Commercial + Civic Buildings by Ralph Haver and Associates
Commercial and Civic Buildings by Prominent Phoenix Architects