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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIDD_j-w-walker-central-arizona-light-power-building_Phoenix-AZ.html
The J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building was built in the spring and summer of 1920 by Phoenix businessman and real estate developer J. W. Walker. Designed by prominent early Phoenix architect L. M. Fitzhugh, the Neo-Classical Reviv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIDB_father-edouard-gerard_Phoenix-AZ.html
The first priest ordained in Arizona, Father Edouard Gerard, attended the Catholic people of Phoenix from Florence, Arizona, where he was the pastor of the Church of the Assumption from 1877 to 1885. For many years, Father Gerard was Vicar General…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMID0_hotel-san-carlos_Phoenix-AZ.html
Hotel San Carlos1928Has been placed on the Phoenix HistoricProperty Register and the NationalRegister of Historic Places.
[An additional marker is mounted indoors between the elevators:]San Carlos HotelThe first schoolhouse in North central Pho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICZ_first-latter-day-saint-chapel-in-phoenix_Phoenix-AZ.html
The first meetinghouse in Phoenix for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was built on this site by the three-hundred-member congregation of the Phoenix Ward. At the time, J. Robert Price was bishop.
Since their beginning …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICY_the-carriage-house_Phoenix-AZ.html
Donated by Forest BurgessTo the city of PhoenixNovember, 1976This carriage house, originally located at 130 East Taylor, was owned by Forest Burgess and is all that remains of the Francis Marion Mognett Ranch which was established in Phoenix in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICV_rosson-house_Phoenix-AZ.html
Built in 1895 by Dr. Roland T. Rosson, Army doctor at Fort McDowell, Phoenix physician (1879-1897) and Mayor, this mansion is one of the few surviving examples of late Victorian architecture in Phoenix. It was acquired by the city through the effo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICA_hayden-house_Mesa-AZ.html
Tempe founder Charles Trumbull Hayden built a house of willow poles on this site in 1871 and erected an adobe home, store, and blacksmith shop during the next two years. He married Sallie Davis in Visalia, California, and brought her here in 1876.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIC9_site-of-haydens-ferry_Tempe-AZ.html
Established in 1871, when the Salt River was a flowing stream and a barrier to travel the ferry was held on course by a wire cable taut across the river. It was an important link in settling the southwest.
Built and operated byCharles Trumbull …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBP_farmer-goodwin-mansion_Tempe-AZ.html
Begun in 1885, this adobe house was completed in February 1886 by Hiram Bradford Farmer. Professor Farmer was the first principal and sole instructor of the newly founded Territorial Normal School, now Arizona State University. Unofficially the bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBO_the-niels-petersen-house_Tempe-AZ.html
Niels Petersen, a Danish immigrant, homesteaded 160 acres in Tempe in 1872. He was involved in almost every aspect of area development and was an organizer of the Tempe Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888.
This Queen Anne style farm house was de…