F.Q. Story Addition

This bungalow neighborhood carries the name of Francis Q. Story, a California horticulturist remembered as a father of the Sunkist orange, who bought the land in 1887 and 1906. Serious building waited until 1923, after a new school and the Cave Creek Dam made the area safe and desirable, and the streets filled with the housing styles of the day: bungalows, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Art Moderne. Today the F. Q. Story district is one of Phoenix's best-preserved early-twentieth-century neighborhoods, a catalog of what the young city wanted to look like.

What the plaque says

Land that was to become the Story Neighborhood, bounded by McDowell Road, Roosevelt Street, 7th Avenue, and Grand Avenue, was purchased in 1887 and 1906 by Francis Q. Story, a horticulturist known as the "father of the Sunkist Orange." Serious development began in 1923, after the construction of Kenilworth School and Cave Creek Dam. The architectural character of the district is dominated by bungalows and Spanish Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses.

Where it stands

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