Tempe Historic Property Survey

This house was apparently built as a rental property around 1908 by Mrs. Annie Nielson, wife of Tempe realtor Andrew Nielson. By 1914, the family of Price Wickliffe was occupying the house. Wickliffe moved to Tempe in 1906 and established businesses as an undertaker and furniture dealer, which he operated until the mid-1930s. He was active in civic affairs and served as Justice of the Peace. The Wickliffe family rented the house through the 1930s.

This frame and stucco house was single-story, rectangular in plan, with a single-story, full-length addition to the east, and a single-story addition to the west, which included the west end of the front porch. The house had a steeply pitched roof with three small triangular vents in the gable end. Roof surfaces were covered with rolled sheeting. The porch extended the length of the front façade, and had a hipped roof supported by three slender square posts set on the porch floor. The porch was reached by a single step and sheltered the single-leaf main entry and an individually placed rectangular multi-light window and a casement window in the east addition. Rectangular casement windows were on the enclosed end of the porch. The house was demolished in the 1980s.

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