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buildings did not survive this restaurants as well, and makes VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
expansion. However, a few late for a pleasant stroll. Rosson House
19th- and early 20th-century is a handsome wooden mansion Practical Information
buildings remain, and the most on Monroe Street dating from Road map B4. * 1,540,000
inter esting of these are found 1895. It has a wrap-around (city only). n Visit Phoenix,
on tree-lined Heritage Square, veranda and distinctive hexagonal 125 North 2nd St. (877) 225-5749.
which has numerous cafés and turret. Visitors may tour the _ PGA Phoenix Golf Waste
house, which is furnished in Management Phoenix Open,
period style (call 602 262-5070). Feb, yearly.
Heard ∑ visitphoenix.com
Museum Next door is the Burgess Transport
Carriage House, constructed
MONTE VISTA ROAD in an expansive colonial style k Sky Harbor International
Airport, 2.5 miles (1.5 km) E.
rare in the Southwest. The 1900
Silva House features exhibits of downtown. @ Greyhound
detailing Arizona’s history. Bus, 2115 E. Buckeye Rd.
TH IR D S TR E E T
MC DOWELL ROAD
AVERADO STREET
Phoenix E Phoenix Art Museum
Art Museum
WILLETTA STREET 1625 N. Central Ave. Tel (602) 257-
1880. Open 10am–9pm Wed, 10am–
10
5pm Tue & Thu–Sat, noon–5pm Sun.
Closed Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & -
MORELAND STREET S E V E N T H S T R E E T =7 ∑ phxart.org
PORTLAND STREET
Housed in an austere modern
building, the highly acclaimed
N O R T H C E N T R A L A V E N U E
GARFIELD ST FIFTH STREET Phoenix Art Museum has an
SIXTH STREET
10 MC KINLEY ST enviable reputation for the
SECOND STREET
quality of its temporary
R OO SE VE LT ST RE ET FIRST STREET FILMORE ST PIERCE ST International Airport exhibitions. These usually share
Sky Harbor
8 km (5 miles)
the lower of the museum’s two
Greyhound station
MC KINLEY STREET F I R ST AV E NU E TAYLOR ST TH IR D S TR E E T 6 km (4 miles) floors with a permanent
collection of contemporary
Heritage
European and North American
FILMORE STREET S EC ON D AVEN UE Arizona Square art. The second floor features
18th- and 19th-century
V A N B U R E N S T R E E T DOWNTOWN Science Center American artists, with a focus
THIRD AVE
on painters connected to the
FOURTH AVE
FIFTH AVE
MONROE STREET
Southwest. The exhibit here
S E V E N T H A V E
SIXTH AVE
GRAND AVE
Taos art colony of the 1900s and
W E S T W A S H I N G T O N S T R E E T
Children’s Museum includes first-rate work from the
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986;
of Phoenix
WOODLAND AVE see p207), the most distinguished
ADAMS STREET J E F FE RS ON STR E ET member of the group, as well as
M ADI S O N S TR E ET
works by Frederic Remington
and Ernest Blumenschein.
15TH AVE
13TH AVE
17TH AVE
Arizona
Capitol Museum
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Sights at a Glance
1 Arizona Capitol Museum
2 Children’s Museum of Phoenix
3 Arizona Science Center
4 Heritage Square
5 Phoenix Art Museum
6 Heard Museum Main entrance of the Phoenix Art Museum
For keys to symbols see back flap
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