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Generally bounded by Osborn and Thomas roads, 15th and 19th avenues. The home style in the North Encanto Historic District is overwhelming the Transitional Ranch, with low-pitched roofs and steel casement windows. Usually at least one window magically defies window-ness by bending around a corner in these clean-lined, brick homes of the residential North Encanto [...]

Roughly bounded by Portland and Fillmore Streets, Central and 7th avenues, Phoenix, Arizona If you’re originally from “back east” or from the Midwest, you are in good company. So many people have relocated their homes and families to the sunnier side of the United States that it seems an actual Phoenix native is getting harder [...]

Windsor Square is significant as a neighborhood that provides evidence of the northern limits of the speculative land development patterns occurring in Phoenix during the late 1920s. The district contains several excellent examples of Period Revival style architecture and has unique architectural merit due to the concentration of homes built after 1939 and through World [...]

Del Norte Place stands today as an island of style and grace within the central city. A tribute to Dr. Norton and long range city planning, the neighborhood enjoys the pastoral atmosphere afforded by the surrounding greenbelt of Encanto Park and Golf Course. Historic Del Norte House, just to the north, now stands, surveying a [...]

Whether you want a modern remodel with stainless steel appliances and polished concrete floors or you’re looking for an original Ranch with tiling accents in now-unattainable shades of green or pink, chances are good you will find the Ranch of your dreams in North Encanto. There are almost 1-square mile of them here, and most [...]