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:
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