The Stoddard-Harmon House is located on the corner of McKinley and First Avenue. Built in approximately 1910, it is across the street from the Dunlap house featured in yesterday’s post and has a similar architectural style of Mission Revival. It is listed on both the National Register of Historic Properties and the Phoenix Historic Property Register. Although considered to be in the Roosevelt Neighborhood, neither the Stoddard-Harmon House or the Dunlap House are part of the Roosevelt Historic District.
The house was first occupied by Celora Stoddard (1886-1943), the son of Isaac Stoddard, one of Arizona’s first pioneers. Isaac Stoddard, a resident of Prescott, served as secretary of the Arizona Territory from 1901 to 1904. Celora was named after his maternal grandfather, Celora Martin, a lawyer in New York who served on both the New York Supreme Court and Court of Appeals between 1877 and 1904.
Stoddard was elected to the state senate in 1920 and in 1928 announced his candidacy for governor. He was a Republican and obviously did not win the primary election because John Phillips, also a Republican, took office as governor in 1929. At the time of his announcement a newspaper article described him as having an interest in the mining industry. He was commander of the first American Legion Post in Arizona and later served as a national vice-commander.
The next presumed owner was Lon Harmon, a notable cattleman. In 1910 he purchased the Horseshoe Ranch, one of the finest cattle ranches in Central Arizona, in Bloody Basin (Arizona has many colorful place names, this one being my favorite!). In 1915 he was elected president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association and in 1922 he was elected mayor of Phoenix and served one year.
The house is now occupied by Triad Insurance but has recently been listed for sale. The listing details the house at just under 4,000 square feet with six bedrooms, two baths, and three nonfunctional fireplaces which are capable of being returned to service. The list price is $1,350,000.
2 comments:
Oooh! I love this one! You have so many beautiful, historic homes near you.
Well let's just all pool our money and run out and buy this one!! It is lovely. Can you imagine six bedrooms??
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