and getting to know each other as individuals, she believed there was almost no problem that couldn't be solved over one civil dinner." Nomination When people were breaking bread with each other. According to Leonard, "This is where she had these very productive policy conversations.
The O'Connor's served guests on the large patio. O'Connor loved to cook and liked preparing Mexican food including chalupas. "Anyone who was anyone in Arizona politics in the 1960s, 1970s was in that house having dinner with Justice O'Connor," according to Arizona State Preservation officer Kathryn Leonard. Senator and Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and former Democratic governor Bruce Babbitt. O'Connor frequently entertained political figures at the house, including U.S. O'Connor made her residence in the house from 1958 to 1981, when she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan. The site was designed by landscape architect Christy Ten Eyck. The new location is within the Carl Hayden Campus for Sustainability at the park, is adjacent to the Arizona Historical Society Museum, and overlooks the city of Tempe and the Salt River. The house was rebuilt in its original geographic orientation. In May 2008, land in Tempe's Papago Park was allocated by unanimous vote of the Tempe City Council. Other parts were moved in large assemblies. Each adobe brick was removed, individually numbered, and stacked for transport to the new location. A preservation effort ensued which raised $2 million in private funding and the house was disassembled beginning in 2007. Ī post-O'Connor owner of the property planned to demolish the home in order to build a larger residence on the lot.
It was O'Connor's desire that the design of the house evoke memories of her childhood home, an adobe ranch house in Duncan, Arizona. The house also features exposed adobe brick on the interior, red concrete floors and exposed wood structural beams.
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In addition to Wright influences such as the large floor-to-ceiling windows that connect the inside to the outside environment, large overhangs to block the desert sun, and a modern "minimal palette of materials", the long narrow shape reflects the California ranch popularized by Cliff May. The original location was on Denton Lane in the town of Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix. O'Connor and her husband placed some of the brick during the construction, and applied skim milk as a preservative. The design is mid-century modern with significant influences of Frank Lloyd Wright. It is one-story with three bedrooms, floor-to-ceiling windows and is approximately 1,700 sq ft (160 m 2). The home was built in 1957 of adobe brick made from mud collected at the nearby Salt River.
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