Is 718 West Moreland Street in Story a Frank B. Wallace original?
I was in this home with a buyer on Monday. It made me completely nuts, so, with the permission of the listing agent, Jeff Gary of the Principal Residential Group, I went back in yesterday to make a photographic record of the property the way it is right now.
It’s a short sale, which is always sad. You can see the home in happier days in our catalog of homes in F.Q. Story.
But what struck me about the home were the similarities to homes built around the same time — the early 1930s — by seminal Phoenix home-builder Frank B. Wallace. I believe this home was built by Wallace himself, but, if it wasn’t, it was built by people who were paying close attention to the new ideas he was bringing to the marketplace.
I ended up taking about six dozen photos of the home. I’m showing a few here, but you can find the rest at the web site I built for 718 West Moreland Street.
This is definitely a re-furb candidate. If retains a lot of the original fixtures and hardware, but that means it will need quite a bit of restoration. But if you’re looking for a very Wallace-like home to refurbish, this might be the one.
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