3-461: The Phoenix Towers were designed by Ralph C. Harris and built by Del E. Webb in Modern Movement style. The buildings, completed in 1957, are located a mile and a half north of downtown Phoenix at the corner of Central Avenue and Monte Vista Road. The main building is 14 stories with four wings forming an X. "Towers" may be misleading, as there is only one high-rise building, but 2 of
6-984: The National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Ralph C. Harris Ralph C. Harris was an architect working in Chicago during the first half of the 20th century. He designed some of the largest hotels and residences of the time: The Aquitania luxury apartment in Uptown, Chicago , 1350 North Astor in Chicago's Gold Coast , Canterbury Court on the Near North Side , and the Tokyo Hotel and his early 1950s modernist co-op 1508 Hinman Ave near Lake Michigan in Evanston, IL. [1] All of these were, for their time, massive structures. They are fifteen-story buildings, except for Canterbury Court, which
9-479: The wings are much larger than the other two, giving an appearance of separate buildings. The other building included in the National Register of Historic Places site is a low-rise pool house. The projecting concrete ledges on the towers serve as both balconies and as awnings for the apartments below. The property borders the Heard Museum , which is just east on Monte Vista Road. The buildings were listed on
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