This photo was taken in 1929.
This house was built around 1920 by George F. Price, an investment banker and president of Price & Price Investment Co. The plans for the house were borrowed from a Los Angeles family, so there probably was a duplicate house somewhere in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Price was a bishop in the Mormon church and had 7 children. Several of the descendants still reside in the Phoenix area.
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The hardwood cabinet, molding and carpentry work was done by a Norwegian master craftsman, Antone Peterson, who cut every piece of wood on the premises. The carpentry work alone took over 6 months to complete.
The novel laundry room, clothes chute, coal chute and foot tub were conceived of by Effie Price, George's wife. The clothes chute is now a hall pantry, but the laundry room and coal chute still exist. The foot tub was removed from the house sometime earlier.
The large front window is believed to be the first and largest residential window of its kind in Phoenix. Originally, an evergreen hedge was placed underneath the window.
This is one of the few houses in the Story Neighborhood that never had a fireplace. The chimney in the kitchen was originally used for a cooking stove.
