Tempe Historic Property Survey

William Still built this house after the previous house on this property was destroyed by fire in 1917. Still farmed the land from 1903 until shortly before his death in 1944. Still's son, Raymond, served as Tempe postmaster from 1924 until his death in 1930, and his daughter, Nellie, was an art teacher at the University of Arizona. Francis T. Cocke, a long-time Tempe farmer, bought the property 1943.

The brick Still/Cocke House was composed of a single-story central building with a pyramidal roof and single-story wings at the north and south ends, with pitched roofs. All roofs had open eaves and were shingled with asphalt. A central portico over the main entry had a gable with clapboard siding and bracketed eaves. Two brick pillars resting on concrete-capped brick bases supported the portico. The portico floor was concrete. Double-hung windows and the door on the central portion of the house had segmental arches. Windows on the north wing were plate glass; those on the south wing were casement. All windows had brick sills. The house had three brick chimneys, two on the south slope of the main house and one at the south end of the north wing.

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