It was a short two years ago that we moved to Patagonia, a small eclectic town in southeastern Arizona. But for 30 years prior to that we lived in the middle of Phoenix in an area known as “Arcadia” which was the big city version of a small-town neighborhood.
At the time we left in January 2016, there was an enormous amount of brouhaha raging in Arcadia about the disposition of a home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son and daughter-in-law in 1950. I wrote about that war of words in a blog post last summer “History In The ‘Hood“.
Since then I’ve been keeping an eye open to learn who prevailed – the preservationists who valued the history of the home or the neighbors who were concerned about the peace and quiet and were, therefore, advocating for demolition. Happily, a compromise was reached and the home lives on. You can read about its current purpose in “The Next Chapter Of The FLW Saga“.
