Old Bones
Phoenix lies atop the bones of an extinct culture. The city of Phoenix was born from the dusty remains of a civilization that had built 135 miles (217.26 km) of canals and had thrived for 700 years. Because of this, an Englishman, who owned a ranch, came up with the name Phoenix. And it stuck.
It was this man, Jack Swilling, who stopped to water his horse one day. He looked out across the Valley of the Sun and saw what could be. He is the founder of Phoenix.
The Booming Nineties
The 1890s in Phoenix was a time when people started to build a lot more houses, streetcars became electric and the first library was built by The Friday Club. This is the Rosson House. It was built in 1897 for a doctor and his family. It is in American Queen Anne style and the last of its kind in Phoenix.
I, personally, am intrigued by this house that sits just down the street from the George Washington Carver museum on the outskirts of town.
What was once a solid brick, picturesque little house has fallen into rack and ruin. I believe this is President Roosevelt architectural style.
Some foul deed may have been perpetrated here, like murder, perhaps. Nice tin roof though. And the Bougainvilleas are surprisingly robust. The tiny house beside it sports a barbed wire perimeter fence.
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