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The Roosevelt District is a modern name for a series of neighborhoods that grew north of the city between 1893 and 1930. These are some of Phoenix’s earliest suburbs, and were choice residential areas of the elite.
In the early twentieth century, the Roosevelt neighborhood was home to many of the politically and socially prominent citizens of Phoenix. They included governors, mayors, supreme court justices, newspaper publishers, entrepreneurs and community leaders. These men and women shaped Phoenix during its early growth.
These homes were not grand by the standards of the Eastern rich. They were fashioned in the styles popular in the West from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. The Roosevelt neighborhood reflected the early efforts of Phoenicians to create a genteel society, the dusty frontier town emerging into the urban center of the Southwest.
In November 1983, the historical significance of the Roosevelt neighborhood was officially recognized by the National Register of Historic Places. The state of Arizona has further recognized the neighborhood by establishing Historic Preservation Overlay Zoning in 1986.
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