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f Phoenix which have been converted E Heard Museum
into tearooms and small 2301 North Central Ave. Tel (602)
* 1,540,000 (city only). k museums. Rosson House, 252-8840. n (602) 252-8848.
@ Greyhound Bus, 2115 E Buckeye Rd. Open 9:30am–5pm Mon–Sat,
n 125 North 2nd St, (602) 254-6500. built in 1895 and decorated 11am–5pm Sun. Closed Dec 25. &
_ The PGA’s Phoenix Golf Open (Jan). with period furnishings, is open 7 8 0 = ∑ heard.org
∑ visitphoenix.com to visitors.
Close to these historic Environs
Stretching across the entire attractions stands the ultra- About 7 miles (11 km) east of
Salt River Valley, Arizona’s modern Arizona Science downtown is Papago Park
capital, Phoenix, started out as Center, with over 300 with its distinctive red rock
a farming town in the 1860s interactive science exhibits formations, outdoor activities,
and soon developed into the offering virtual reality trips and museums. Immediately
economic hub of the state. through the human body. south of the park, the Hall of
As it grew, it gradually A short drive north of Flame Fire Museum houses a
absorbed the downtown leads to large collection of fire fighting
surrounding towns of the highly acclaimed equipment dating from the
Heard
Scottsdale, Mesa, and Phoenix Art Museum, early 1700s. In the center Museum MONTE VISTA ROAD
Tempe, and now has renowned for its of Papago Park, the Desert
over a million people stimulating temporary Botanical Garden displays 4,000
within the city and exhibitions. The second arid plant species, including TH IR D S TR E E T
almost three million in floor houses works by 139 that are rare, threatened, or AVERADO STREET
Metropolitan Phoenix. 18th- and 19th-century endangered. A few miles north PALM LANE
Downtown Phoenix has American artists, partic- of Papago Park lies the separate Phoenix Art McDOWELL ROAD
many historic attractions ularly those painters city of Scottsdale, founded in Museum SCOTTSDALE
while the metropolitan connected with the the late 19th century. Replete WILLETTA STREET Papago Park
area, famed for the Kachina doll, Heard Southwest. Among with air- conditioned malls, N O R T H C E N T R A L AV E N U E 10 12km (7miles)
design studio Taliesin the exhibits are works designer stores, hotels, cafés, McDOWELL ROAD
West, is also popular Museum by Georgia O’Keeffe and restaurants, it is MORELAND STREET
WILLETTA STREET
with tourists for its spas and Gilbert Stuart, also famous for its THIRD AVE PORTLAND STREET S E V E N T H S T R E E T
and resorts during the warm whose celebrated Portrait of world-class golf FIFTH AVE
winter months. George Washington (1796) is courses. Scottsdale’s SIXTH STREET
seen on every dollar bill. quiet, tree-lined streets SECOND STREET GARFIELD ST FIFTH STREET
Exploring Downtown The Heard Museum, farther and desert setting NINTH AVE MC KINLEY ST
Phoenix north, was founded in 1929 by attracted the visionary 10 PIERCE ST Sky Harbor
R OO SE VELT ST RE ET
Downtown, where the city Dwight Heard, a wealthy architect Frank Lloyd PORTLAND STREET FIRST STREET International Airport
8 km (5 miles)
began in the 19th century, rancher and newspaper tycoon, Wright (see p394) to establish Greyhound station
covers a few blocks east and whose wife, Maie, amassed an his winter studio Taliesin West FILMORE ST TH IR D S TR EE T 6 km (4 miles)
west of Central Avenue and extraordinary collection of in the hills to the northeast, in MC KINLEY STREET FI R ST AV E NUE TAYLOR ST Rosson Heritage
House
north and south of Washington Native Southwestern American 1937. The 600-acre (240-ha) S ECO N D AVEN UE Square
Street. Washington Street art. The museum exhibits over complex is now an S E V E N T H A V E N U E FILMORE STREET
houses the copper-domed 40,000 works, but its star attrac- architecture school and a THIRD AVE Arizona
Arizona Capitol Museum, tion is the display of more than working design studio. The NINTH AVE FIFTH AVE FOURTH AVE Science Center
originally the state legislature. 500 kachina dolls. Apart from muted tones of its low-lying SIXTH AVE V A N B U R E N S T R E E T DOWNTOWN
The museum documents the dolls, there’s an award- winning buildings and use of local GRAND AVE MONROE STREET
state’s political history. display of Native American stone for irregular walls
More glimpses of the city’s pottery, jewelry, and textiles reflects Wright’s enthusiasm
W E S T W A S H I N G T O N S T R E E T
history can be seen in the called Home: Native Peoples for the desert setting.
attractive restored Victorian In The Southwest. The Sandra The Cosanti WOODLAND AVE
houses on the tree-lined Day O’Connor Gallery displays Foundation, ADAMS STREET
Heritage Square, some of temporary exhibitions. 4 miles (6 km) west 15TH AVE J EF FE RS ON STR E ET
of Taliesin West, M ADI S O N S TR E ET
was established 13TH AVE
by the Italian
architect and
student of 17TH AVE
Wright, Paolo
Soleri (1919–2013), Arizona State
to further his study Capitol Museum
of what he termed
“arcology”: a combination
of architecture and ecology to
create new urban habitats. Today,
the site consists of simple, low
The 1900 façade of the Arizona State Capitol Building, Phoenix structures housing studios, a
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp550–52 and pp553–55
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