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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

• Country Club Apartments by Ralph Haver in the late 40s
• 8000 North Central Avenue condos
• 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.
• La Mirada is a classic complex in Uptown Phoenix, recently rehabbed.
• The Palmaire was rehabbed by Helix, and looks great!
• Paradise Palms
• Continental East
• 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.
• Pueblo Bonita -- Haver, Nunn & Collamer designed duplexes and multifamily living just a stone's throw from LGO
• Central Park West by Michael Defiel, featuring "The Atrium Everyone is Talking About!"
• A charming ad for the Pierre in Phoenix's uptown garden apartments
• Multifamily Apartments and Condos on Maryland
• Park Fifth Avenue apartment rendering near Park Central Mall
• Al Beadle's Executive Towers. in 1962 Alfred Newman Beadle designed the tallest highrise residental structure ever in uptown Phoenix. Join us for an insider's tour of this seminal work in Beadle's career.
• Uptown garden apartments in the shadow of Executive Towers and the Clarendon Hotel. Who knew that Uptown Phoenix had its own version of the Scottsdale garden apartments?
• Resort-style Apartments in the Glorious Shadow of the Valley Ho

• The Vale by Will Bruder

• Multifamily Bliss along Rose Lane

• The Sands: Funky White Condos in South Scottsdale
• Arcosanti by Paolo Soleri near Cordes Junction
• Paiute apartments in SoSco

• 20th Street condos near Camelback Road

• Retro-cute apartments and signage
• A Blaine Drake townhome in the Executive Suites community on Missouri and 16th
• Lo Loma 5 by Will Bruder in Scottsdale
• Beadleview and Construction Zone
  Revitalization in downtown Phoenix
• The Bon Vie condo renovation, Central Scottsdale

LOST IN STUCCOVILLE? Try our interactive map of Modern Phoenix neighborhoods, vintage retailers and architectural landmarks. We have over 325 destinations and three drivng tours programmed in for you! You can still download the old PDF of the 2006 Top Ten neighborhoods here [304 k PDF file]

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

• NEW! Find everything Haver in the Ralph Haver Archive
• The Evertson House in Marion Estates by Ralph Haver, a rare two-story "Sweedish Modern" home
• The Grebles Residence in the 50s; a Haver tract home in Northwood modified by the Grebles Family.
• The back patio porch at The Hopkins House is finally on its way to restoration after decades of enclosure.
• Jazz Standard: The Lorna House. See Shawn Kaffer's transformation of a Haver Home in Starlite Vista.
• Jazz Standard, Track 2: Original Photos of The Lorna House. View Shawn Kaffer's Haver home before it was transformed into a modern gem.
• The Hobza + Bageant remodel in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove
• A historic tour of the Hopkins House, a 1946 Ralph Haver home in Canal North, featuring vintage photos
• A present-day tour through the Hopkins House, a Ralph Haver home being renovated by Modern Phoenix site founders Alison and Matthew King
• Save-a-Haver! What happens when a savvy MoPho acquires Ralph Haver's own family home without the sellers knowing it? Pure ModPhx Magic.
• The Danleys' Dramatic New Landscape in Haver's Windemere
• Mr. Natural's Desert Aquarium in Haver's Marlen Grove
• The Way We Were, a story of a Marlen Grove Ralph Haver home
• A tour of a Haver Home in Marlen Grove [5708]
• A Tour of a Haver home in Marlen Grove [5734]
• Progress on the Danley Residence in Haver's Windemere
• Progress on Ben & Melissa Allison's home in Haver's Marlen Grove (2 pages)
• Contemporary Haver remodel and a custom contemporary home by Michael P. Johnson Design Studios
• A unique clinker-brick Haver in Town and Country, the first Haverhood to be designated as historic by the City of Scottsdale.
• A Haver kitchen remodel in Windemere

Unconfirmed Ralph Haver Neighborhoods

These could also be Ralph Haver designed tract neighborhoods. However, hard documentation has yet to surface.

• Camelback Park Estates Variations on a Haver theme, plus a few contemporary surprises
• Ralph Haver home (?) in Rancho del Monte at 38th Place and Campbell
• Field Guide to Campus Homes in Tempe, believed by many to be of Ralph Haver origin
• Del Webb's Campus Homes, fondly known as Camus Homes, the first tract housing built in Tempe, believed by many to be of Ralph Haver origin
• Suspected late Havers in Newcastle, West Phoenix

Commercial + Civic Buildings by Ralph Haver and Associates

• The Triangle Building, suspected to be by Ralph Haver
• The Phoenix Municipal Building put out a neat little brochure about their Haver and Varney-designed building to help educate the public.
• Pima Plaza is a temple of redwood in the similar style of the demloished Entz-White Lumberyard on Architect's Row.
• Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church is an prime example of church, school and residential all sharing the same campus in all its Superlite glory, designed by Ralph Haver & Associates, of course!
• Paradise Valley United Methodist Church is Perhaps Ralph Haver's greatest accomplishment in red brick construction, and hearkens to his other masterworks of the same era.
• Creighton Church is part of where it all started for Haver, in this modest and slightly Googie style church in 1947
• The Triangle Building -- still a mystery who designed it, and still a head-turner. Either Haver or a very good imitator.
• 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".
• Architect's Row at 3rd and Coamelback where all the major firms had offices in the 50s.
• The Lou Regester (now Copenhagen) furniture store by Ralph Haver put out some swanky ads in its day.

Commercial and Civic Buildings by Prominent Phoenix Architects

• Phoenix's Street of Dreams:
  The Visual Extravaganza that was Van Buren
• Van Buren in the 1990s by Michael Levine
• Our interactive map of Vintage Van Buren
• The Phoenix Financial Center by W.A. Sarmiento, a Phoenix Icon
• When good intentions fall short of expectations: the new paint job at the Bank of America makes 20th and Camelback even more of a heartbreak
• Al Beadle's Executive Towers. in 1962 Alfred Newman Beadle designed the tallest highrise residental structure ever in uptown Phoenix. Join us for an insider's tour of this seminal work in Beadle's career.
• Watch as the façcade to Beadle's 341 building on Camelback gets scraped for something better.
• Farewell, Mountain Bell. On September 27, 2009, Phoenix witnessed the demolition of Al Beadle's Mountain Bell Building. Our 360º coverage of the event includes historic photos, interviews with preservation specialists and the design community, a talk with Nancy Beadle and high-quality video of that fateful day.
• Beef Eaters Restaurant has been vacant for years. What could the future hold for this unique postmodern property?
• The Stewart Motor Company aka Circles Records by W.Z. Smith is the latest postwar modern masterpiece on the market in Downtown Phoenix.
• ASU Campus
• Tempe City Hall by Michael and Kemper Goodwin, 1971
• Washburn Piano Company Building, DEMOLISHED!
• The Valley National Bank Building @ 3rd Ave. & Indian School RESTORED!
• An Al Beadle Office Building in Uptown on Camelback
• Arizona Falls. The perfect first-date picnic spot for lovers of architecture. Bring a sandwich and a friend!
• Biomorphic Concrete Office at 3rd Street Near Osborn
• Sunset Bowl in East Sunnyslope on 12th Street
• Design and Materials at the DC Ranch Marketplace [Circle West Architects]