Fairview Place

"Everything points to Fairview Place" was the motto adopted by the Matheson Construction Company when they planned this community bin 1928. Originally laid out just outside the city limits, the development was to include fifty houses built in a style termed "Americanized Dutch". In reality, twenty-six were built from 1929 to 1932 in a variety of styles including Tudor, Southwest and Spanish Colonial Revival. The Great Depression brought a halt to construction until 1937 when the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) stepped in and assumed control of the Fairview Place development. The rest of the home sites were constructed to FHA standards, which put an emphasis on efficiency in both form and materials (and that meant they were built as Ranch style). Today, Fairview Place, with its close proximity to the State Fairgrounds and Encanto Park, exhibits the same sense or renewal that is being felt in many of Phoenix's historic neighborhoods.

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Historic Status - February 1994

Bounded by McDowell, Encanto Blvd, 15th and 17th Avenues.