Arizona
Five historic landmarks in Arizona, across four eras of American history. Start with Tombstone Historic District, Mission San Xavier del Bac and Taliesin West.
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Pictured Tombstone Historic District
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Landmarks in Arizona
- Westward Expansion
Tombstone Historic District
Tombstone, AZ
Tombstone crammed a legend into a single generation: a silver-boom town that exploded from nothing in the Arizona desert, became one of the wildest settlements in the West, and produced the thirty-second gunfight that would define the American mythology of the frontier.
Spanish ColonialMission San Xavier del Bac
Tucson, AZ
Rising white against the Sonoran Desert south of Tucson, Mission San Xavier del Bac is widely considered the finest example of Spanish Colonial architecture in the United States.
The 20th CenturyTaliesin West
Scottsdale, AZ
Rising from the rock and sand of the Sonoran Desert north of Scottsdale, Taliesin West shows Frank Lloyd Wright reinventing his architecture for an entirely different landscape than his native Midwest.
The 20th CenturyGrand Canyon Village
Grand Canyon, AZ
A railroad tourist camp that grew, under the design hand of architect Mary Colter, into one of the most architecturally distinctive gateways to any American national park.
Indigenous AmericaNavajo National Monument
Shonto, AZ
Three cliff dwellings tucked into remote sandstone canyons, abandoned around 1300 and left largely undisturbed for six centuries, preserving one of the most intact windows into ancestral Puebloan life in the American Southwest.