Tempe Historic Property Survey

The Schweppe House was built in 1909 by W. J. Kingsbury, a prominent Tempe banker who lived next door, for his daughter and son-in-law, Nona and Richard Schweppe. Four months later, Mrs. Schweppe died following the birth of their first child. Richard Schweppe moved to California shortly afterward. The house had been used as a rental property during much of its subsequent history.

The Schweppe House was a large two-story frame building designed with Bungaloid characteristics, including broad overhangs, bracketed eaves, a wall dormer centered in the front roof plane, and gables. The house was covered with horizontal clapboard siding and roofed with asphalt shingles. The most prominent features of the house were the steeply pitched roof, which extended to overhang both the front and rear of the house; and the second story wall dormer, which opened onto a small balcony entered from French doors in the dormer. Two rectangular windows flanked the door. French doors were also located on the east façade, flanked with rectangular multi-light windows. Both front and rear porches had been enclosed. The front porch was covered with stucco; the rear porch was sheathed in clapboard siding. A brick chimney rose from the west end of the front roof slope. Windows were randomly placed around the house and were of varying shapes and sizes. Entries to provide access to apartments had been added to the facades. The house was demolished in the 1980s.

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