• Our Map of Modern Phoenix will help you locate neato neighborhoods
• If you're looking for our multifamily neighborhoods, you can find them here
• Star of Paradise in north Phoenix
• Dutch Village aka Olive Acres by Charles and Arthur Schreiber is king of the character ranches
• Apache Country Club Estates in Mesa has marvelously intact tiki style tract homes
• Vintage advertisements for Apache Country Club Estates in Mesa, where Lorne Green's Bonanza House anchored a development
• Thunderbird Country Club Estates
• Wishing Well Village by Cheuvront Homes on the West Side
• Vintage ads for Trail West are the perfect resource for rehabilitation, promising Space-Age design and original exteriors, where "extras come standard"
• HyView neighborhood has vintage ads that help paint an accurate picture for rehabilitation
• Papago Gardens in North Tempe
• Sans Souci near the Biltmore hides away a Blaine Drake home and a Beadle near the Biltmore
• Our favorite buildings on the wacky and wonderful West Side
• 17th Avenue Parkway Garden Apartment District
• Sands West, a Polynesian themed subdivision by E.T. Wright
• Midcentury Homes in Sunnyslope that were featured on our 2011 home tour
• The four sections of Sunnyslope
• Paradise Gardens with homes designed (or not) by Al Beadle was the neighborhood for our 2010 Home Tour and our 2017 Home Tour.
• Piecing Together Paradise Gardens on its 50th Birthday. Al Beadle didn't want to be cited as the architect behind Paradise Gardens in North Phoenix, so why is he still getting credit 50 years later? David Tyda ventures out to set the record straight, and finds it's still kinda crooked.
• A windshield survey of Paradise Gardens
• The Paradise Gardens marketing brochure circa 1960, compares the model home illustrations to how the homes look today.
• The Howell Home 1960-1964. Shows what an original Paradise Gardens Saguaro Model looked like, including kitchen and bath!
• Tearing down the Arcadia / Camelback Legacy

• Find everything related to Haver Homes in the Ralph Haver Archive
• Haverhoods: The definitive directory to all confirmed Ralph Haver neighborhoods we know of. If it's not in here, it's not confirmed.
• Marlen Grove
• Mayfair Manor
• Janet Manor
• Town and Country Scottsdale
• Town and Country Paradise
• Northwood
• Windemere
• Starlite Vista
• Tonka Vista
• Vintage floorplans, materials, cabinet layouts and exterior color schemes for Haver's Starlite Vista tract home plans
• The Pueblo Bonita neighborhood by Haver, Nunn and Collamer is chock full of triplexes and may be one of Phoenix's best-preserved 1960s neighborhoods.
• Vintage photos of a home in Janet Manor in the 50s and 60s, aka Ralph Haver's Town and Country II in Uptown Phoenix
• P.A.T. [Perfect Arizona Type] Homes
• Carlos Terrace is confirmed as a Haverhood for J. Howard Cheuvront, and becomes a southern sister of the Town and Country program
• Terra del Sol Perfect Arizona Type Homes: Wilmot Vista, Donna Vista and Grande Vista in Tucson are included

These could also be Ralph Haver designed tract neighborhoods. However, hard documentation has yet to surface.

• Camelback Park Estates Variations on a Haver theme, plus a few contemporary surprises
• Possible Ralph Haver home in Rancho del Monte at 38th Place and Campbell

• Find everything Haver in the Ralph Haver Archive
• The Evertson House in Marion Estates by Ralph Haver, a rare two-story "Swedish Modern" home
• The Grebles Residence in the 50s; a Haver tract home in Northwood modified by the Grebles Family.
• The back patio porch at The Hopkins House is finally on its way to restoration after decades of enclosure.
• Jazz Standard: The Lorna House. See Shawn Kaffer's transformation of a Haver Home in Starlite Vista.
• Jazz Standard, Track 2: Original Photos of The Lorna House
• The Hobza + Bageant remodel in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove
• A historic tour of the Hopkins House, a 1946 Ralph Haver home in Canal North, featuring vintage photos
• A present-day tour through the Hopkins House, a Ralph Haver home being renovated by Modern Phoenix site founders Alison and Matthew King

• Phoenix lost the Whitacre House by Fred Guirey FAIA
• The David and Gladys Wright Foundation gifted their home to the School of Architecture at Taliesin on Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday
• Warner House by Charles Montooth AIA
• The Kramlich House by Al Beadle in Paradise Valley was demolished
• Bartolotti House by Dean Coffman
• The Richert House by Blaine Drake
• The Breech House by Ard Hoyt in Clearwater Hills gets a complete refresh for 2014. Compare then and now.
• Shaffer residence by Ard Hoyt in Clearwater Hills
• 1960s Time Capsule Ranch by Eugene Buchli on Kaler Drive
• The Manker House by Blaine Drake
• Modern Adobe Home by Robert Peterson was demolished to make way for new homes, despite being on 2013 "Endangered Dozen" list
• Town and Country home time capsule in Janet Manor shows original finishes useful for future Ralph Haver restorations.
• The Guirey House gets some desperately needed TLC after it's wood was painted over by an owner that just didn't get it. Glass-blasting was the answer.
• Rice House by Richard Neutra in Richmond, Virginia
• Our three tours for DoCoMoMo Weekend 2011 featured both custom homes and behind the scenes of commercial buildings.
• The Marion Estates neighborhood is an enclave of custom, semi-custom and tract homes near the head of Camelback Mountain at 44th Street and Stanford Drive. The neighborhood was built out from 1952 through the early 1960s and features homes by Blaine Drake, Ralph Haver, Al Beadle, and more.
• History of Marion Estates
• Sands West, a Polynesian themed subdivision by E.T. Wright
• Student Shelters are a practical part of the architecture curriculum at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
• 5302 Doubletree Ranch Road by Alfred Newman Beadle in 1955
• The Linder House. This Schreiber-designed tract home received a total rehab by Joe David at JoBuilt Construction.

• We've updated our Multifamily Housing section

ARCADIA

• The Cascades got another new paint job.
• Arcadia Apartments
• Mockingbird East
• Arcadia Green
• Arc
• Casa Moderna
• Pueblo Bonita -- Haver, Nunn & Collamer designed triplexes
• The HOA at Arcadia Courtyards turns 90s Spanish back into a sharp 60s vibe

UPTOWN PHOENIX

• Teakwood Apartments
• Paradise Palms aka Mayfair Apartments by Ralph Haver
• Kingswood
• 333 W Missouri
• 1711 E Missouri
• The Saxony
• Citrus Grove
• A surprising update on Roman Roads by Al Beadle
• 8000 North Central Avenue condos
• Continental East
• La Mirada
• The Palmaire
• Multifamily Apartments and Condos on Maryland
• A Blaine Drake townhome in the Executive Suites community on Missouri and 16th
• Central Park West by Michael Defiel, featuring "The Atrium Everyone is Talking About!"
• Multifamily Bliss along Rose Lane

By Ralph Haver & Associates

• The Phoenix Municipal Complex
• The Phoenix Municipal Building put out a neat little brochure about their Haver and Varney-designed building to help educate the public.
• Pima Plaza is a temple of redwood in the similar style of the demolished Entz-White Lumberyard on Architect's Row.
• Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church is an prime example of church, school and residential all sharing the same campus in all its Superlite glory, designed by Ralph Haver & Associates, of course!
• Paradise Valley United Methodist Church is Perhaps Ralph Haver's greatest accomplishment in red brick construction, and hearkens to his other masterworks of the same era.
• Creighton Church is part of where it all started for Haver, in this modest and slightly Googie style church in 1947
• A Student's-eye view of their brand new high school, Ralph Haver's Coronado High. From the 1967 Coronado High yearbook themed "Our Town".
• Architect's Row at 3rd and Camelback where all the major firms had offices in the 50s.
• The Lou Regester (now Copenhagen) furniture store by Ralph Haver put out some swanky ads in its day.
• The Triangle Building by Ralph Haver
• The Stewart Motor Company aka Circles Records by W.Z. Smith is the latest postwar modern masterpiece on the market in Downtown Phoenix.
• ASU Campus is full of 60s-era modern architecture
• Tempe City Hall by Michael and Kemper Goodwin, 1971
• Washburn Piano Company Building, DEMOLISHED!
• Arizona Falls. The perfect first-date picnic spot for lovers of architecture. Bring a sandwich and a friend!
• Biomorphic Concrete Office at 3rd Street Near Osborn
• Sunset Bowl in East Sunnyslope on 12th Street, by Pierson Miller and Ware
• Design and Materials at the DC Ranch Marketplace by Circle West Architects