Editor Pick
Heritage Square
- September 23, 2004
- Rated 5 of 5 by
lrybka from Moscow, Russia
For a bit of milling around shops and people watching, you can hardly do better than taking either a Red (R) or a Yellow (Y) public bus, and coming to the Heritage Square. The name, again, is revealing. The city of Phoenix was created in the year 1870, but surprising little remains of its 19th century past – and the only place where I could discover them was the heritage Square, carrying some of the few remaining 19th-century houses in Phoenix (all Victorian in style and all on the National Register of Historic Places) and the original Phoenix town site. Today these buildings are not, of course, residential, but they house museums, restaurants, and gift shops instead. Here is what to expect:
The Eastlake Victorian Rosson House: you can view late 19th-century antiques when touring the building.
The Silva House, a neoclassical, revival-style home, houses historical exhibits on turn-of-the-century life in the Valley of the Sun.
The Stevens-Haustgen House is now a gift shop, with both postcards and more rare, expensive items of local art.
The Stevens House houses the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. Especially interesting is the 1912 schoolroom display in which the children are all represented by antique dolls. It is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm, and on Sundays from noon till 4pm. Closed in August.
The Burgess Carriage House is another gift shop and ticket window for the Rosson House tours.
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The Teeter House, an 1897 mule barn, as well as the old Baird Machine Shop now house various eateries.
From journal Phoenix Vacation