place

Rancho Joaquina House

1925 establishments in ArizonaHouses completed in 1925Houses in Phoenix, ArizonaHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in ArizonaMission Revival architecture in Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, ArizonaSpanish Colonial Revival architecture in Arizona
Rancho Joaquina House
Rancho Joaquina House

Rancho Joaquina House (also known as J.E. Thompson House) is a Mission Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix. Built in 1924–1925 by the Phoenix architectural firm Fitzhugh & Byron, the mansion is known as the earliest adobe revival property in the Phoenix area. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the historic register for the City of Phoenix.The property was built for J.E. Thompson, who was once a Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Arizona. He was also the younger brother of William Boyce Thompson. The 1950s television show 26 Men was filmed, in part, on the estate. The house was largely vacant in the 1950s and 1960s, during which time local children believed the property to be haunted. Sometime while J.E. Thompson was residing in the house, he is known to have shot and killed a man on the property who threatened to kidnap his son if Thompson did not pay a ransom of $35,000. He later gave the money to the family after learning that the slain man's wife was ill.In 1970, the property was renovated and became a designer show house. The estate today is surrounded by the El Coronado Estates community which was built in the late '60s and early '70s.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Rancho Joaquina House (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Rancho Joaquina House
East Cheery Lynn Road, Phoenix

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Rancho Joaquina HouseContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 33.485059 ° E -111.980861 °
placeShow on map

Address

East Cheery Lynn Road 4630
85018 Phoenix
Arizona, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Rancho Joaquina House
Rancho Joaquina House
Share experience

Nearby Places

David and Gladys Wright House
David and Gladys Wright House

The David and Gladys Wright House is a Frank Lloyd Wright residence built in 1952 in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. It has historically been listed with an address of 5212 East Exeter Boulevard, but currently has an entrance on the 4500 block of North Rubicon Avenue. There currently is no public access to the house. This 2,500-square-foot concrete-block house was designed and built for the architect's son David and his wife, Gladys, and is situated among orange groves on a site facing north toward Camelback Mountain. The house has a spiral design to cool the house by capturing the wind. Though it has been claimed that the spiral ramp anticipated the design of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim plan predates the design of the house, and Wright designed several buildings with spiral ramps beginning as early as the 1920s.David and Gladys Wright lived in the house until their deaths. David died in 1997 at the age of 102; Gladys died in 2008 at age 104. Gladys left the house to granddaughters who sold it. The new buyer in turn sold it to a real estate developer, 8081 Meridian, who planned to demolish the house and develop its 2.2 acre lot. Efforts to protect the building through a heritage designation were begun in August 2012. The house was purchased by a Delaware LLC, and the owner intends to transfer the property to a non-profit foundation, the David and Gladys Wright House Foundation. On June 8, 2017, the 150th anniversary of Frank's birth, the home's owner, Zach Rawling, decided to donate the home to the School of Architecture at Taliesin, formerly known as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. He had hoped the house would be used as a living laboratory for architecture students. In June 2018 the deal was called off and the house was placed on the market in September for $12.9 million. It was announced on August 17, 2020 that the Wright house was sold for US$7.25 million to Benson Botsford LLC:The buyers include architects Bing Hu and Wenchin Shi. They served as architectural apprentices at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. They plan on personally restoring the Wright House including installing a new copper roof which was part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s original plan. Jim Benson, former chairman and CEO of John Hancock, serves as CEO of Benson Botsford LLC. Benson and Hu were also recently elected to serve on the board the School of Architecture at Taliesin (formerly the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture).On January 28, 2022, the Wright house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Royal Palms Resort and Spa
Royal Palms Resort and Spa

Royal Palms Resort and Spa is a historic hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. It was built in Spanish Colonial style in 1929 as a retirement home for New York businessman Delos Cooke, who died unexpectedly in 1931, and his wife. It opened as a hotel in 1948.It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.The hotel's mahogany front doors are original. It has an almost-unique imported Spanish tile mural called the "Lady of Spain". Its Mansion Courtyard has 24 tiles in its archways, each representing a Spanish province; these are also original to the estate. The resort has almost 200 examples of palm trees, in 14 varieties.The 1992 TV movie Sunstroke, with Don Ameche (in his last TV role) and Jane Seymour, was filmed at Royal Palms. Seymour's character, after a bitter divorce, sought to regain custody of her daughter in a film noir journey; Ameche played a Scottsdale motel manager.There are 24 fountains, and 73 fireplaces (some inside guest rooms), and 193 palm trees.The resort was sold for $88.25 million in 2016.The resort finished a $3.7 million renovation in 2017. The historically sensitive renovation addressed all 119 guest rooms, the resort's lounge area with its "Mother-of-Pearl"-tiled swimming pool, its event lawns, and landscaping which includes almost 200 palm trees across its nine acres.In 2018 the resort celebrated its 70th anniversary. There was a "Royal Palms 70th Anniversary Party" on September 20, 2018. Tickets were $50 and guests were invited to wear 1940s resort wear.The resort was listed as one of the most romantic hotels in the world by Luxury Travel magazine in 2022.