Distinctive Phoenix, The Movie: Uniquely beautiful homes beyond all expectations
Phoenix is sometimes maligned as a vast suburb crawling with tract houses. The complaint is not without some truth, although our tract home neighborhoods can yield some very pleasant surprises. And every home is unique, no matter how similar it might seem to be to its neighbors.
But Cathleen and I get to spend much of our time in Phoenix neighborhoods where every home truly is unique — the historic and architecturally distinctive neighborhoods of Central and North Phoenix, where virtually every structure is a one-off expression of some one artist’s or craftsman’s vision.
We take a lot of photos of the homes we visit, and we save all the photos we take. Appended below is a QuickTime film called Distinctive Phoenix, The Movie. It’s a 35 minute exhibition of about 500 photos of homes, rooms, gardens and architectural ornaments — an exhibition of homes we thought were particularly striking.
This is our answer to complaints about a rigid sameness in architecture in the Valley of the Sun. These are the kinds of lovely, one-of-a-kind residences you can find here — if you are willing to look beyond your jaded expectations.
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I knew you’d do it. Nicely done.
[...] Then, when Greg was putting together “Distinctive Phoenix, The Movie,” I revisited pictures of my favorite houses to help feed the movie. Of course, many of those photos are from this beautiful home. Once you take a look, you’ll know what I mean … I’ve been sitting on this treasure much too long. It’s time for me to take these photos out of their drawer and share them. [...]