GARFIELD HISTORIC DISTRICT

Garfield Neighborhood is where you can still enjoy an affordable urban lifestyle – without the commute.  It is one of the few neighborhoods in walking distance to downtown events – whether your interests are in art, music, sports, theatre, museums, or politics. The Garfield Historic District’s resources reflect a significant span of Phoenix’s early residential development dating from the city’s late 19th and early 20th century expansion beyond its original townsite boundaries, through the boom years of the 1910s, 1920s, and into the period leading up to and following World War II. The district is comprised of numerous subdivisions, the first of which was the Dennis Addition, platted in 1883. Little construction took place in the Dennis Addition in the 19th century, but the arrival of a streetcar line through the tract in 1895 inspired considerable growth that established distinctive patterns including street layout, lot size and configuration, and building orientation. Because it retains its original street layout, lot size and configuration, setback, size, scale, and early housing stock to a large degree, the Garfield Historic District is a good example of an early Street Car Subdivision (1887-1925) in Phoenix. The district has scores of pyramidal cottages, Craftsman influenced bungalows, and Period Revival style houses appeared along the streets in the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, and increasingly in the immediate postwar period, Early/Transitional Ranch style houses added to the district’s historic fabric.

Information courtesy of www.garfieldorganization.com and the National Register of Historic Places,  Department of the Interior

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