Tempe Historic Property Survey

The Elliot House is the best remaining example of frame bungalow styling in Tempe. Built in 1929, the house exemplifies characteristic bungalow features, such as intersecting gables, tapered and squared porch columns, and entry sidelights. The clapboard exterior is in excellent condition, and the house has changed little from its original configuration.

The house was built during the height of construction in the Park Tract, between 1928 and 1930. Tempe had been experiencing a housing shortage for many years, and the Park Tract was designed to provide comfortable and modern family type housing. The popular bungalow style fulfilled these requirements. This house, with its classic bungalow design, was an important addition to the new neighborhood and continues to convey its architectural qualities of design, workmanship and setting.

The Elliot House is a one-story wood frame house with clapboard siding, constructed in the bungalow style. The most prominent features are shingled medium-pitched central and porch roofs with gables fronting the house, and an intersecting perpendicular medium-pitched roof. Open gable eaves are bracketed and feature lattice vents in the peaks. A short extension of the house to the south also has a medium-pitched roof and bracketed gable eaves. A low addition at the rear of the house has a low-pitched roof with open eaves and is also covered with clapboard siding. The front porch covers a single central entry, which has ten-pane sidelights, a characteristic of bungalow styling. The porch roof is supported by two short, tapering pillars, set upon tall, square concrete piers. Two low concrete piers frame the two-step entry to the concrete-floored porch. Windows are double-hung and discretely placed. A single-leaf side entry has a concrete stoop. A clapboard garage is at the rear of the property. The house is in excellent condition and retains its classic bungalow features.

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