Hayden House

Tempe's oldest building began as a house of willow poles that Charles Trumbull Hayden raised beside his ferry in 1871, replaced within a few years by adobe rooms, a store, and a blacksmith shop. He brought his wife Sallie here in 1876, and their son Carl was born in the house in 1877; Carl Hayden would go on to serve fifty-seven years in Congress, longer than almost anyone in the nation's history. The old adobe later became the Hayden Hotel and then Monti's La Casa Vieja restaurant, and once hosted Sallie Hayden's Tempe suffragists.

What the plaque says

Tempe founder Charles Trumbull Hayden built a house of willow poles on this site in 1871 and erected an adobe home, store, and blacksmith shop over the next two years. He married Sallie Davis in Visalia, California, and brought her here in 1876. Their son Carl, who served in the U.S. Congress for 57 years, was born here in 1877. Tempe's oldest building, which later housed the Hayden Hotel and Monti's Casa Vieja restaurant, was once a rallying place for Sallie Hayden's Tempe suffragettes.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Phoenix — 7.8 mi
  The fifth-largest US city, built on the canals of a thousand-year-old one
• Heard Museum — 8.1 mi
  The Native Southwest, told in the first person
• Taliesin West — 13 mi
  Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterwork, grown from the ground it stands on

More markers nearby

• Site of Hayden's Ferry — steps away
• Sallie D. Hayden — steps away
• Tempe Hardware Building — 0.3 mi
• The Old Church — 0.6 mi