Arizona republican., 1900-11-13
ARCHITECTURAL GROWTH
Improvements Begun During the
 Late Political Excitement

During the past excN,ing six weeks The Republican has bezn unable to expend as much time and space upon more tama but not less important af- fairs than local, te~rit rial or national politics, namely. those improvements which contribute to the betterment and greatness of Phoenix. While some men have been building political fortunes and While the foundations and super structures of the political fortunes of others were crum5hng into nothingness Phoenix has ben growing. Residences and business blocks have been finished, ci.hcr residences and business blocks have been srarted and work has been going on steadily on still other resi- dences and business blocks the same as if no election were depending. The Re- publican found itself unable to chron- icle the progress Of this architectural campaign, having it's hands full of the political campaign. But a political cam paign is in the nature of things evanes- cent, a thing of today. While the re- suits of an architectural movement are for all time. They may be described thousand years hence as well as now. That is why The Republican gave the ephemeral political campaign the right Of way. But it has lived its day. A current magazine contains a long and inter sting article on ''Tha Six Hand sOmest Buildings in the World" That article recalled to the architectural edi- tor of The Republican that the Phoenix branch had been neglected and he straightway resolved to take it up without further delay and without waiting for the official count. The election is as good as settled, anyway. Thcre may be slight changes, which can not affect the already published re- suit.
 He accordingly enters upon a des2rip- tiCn of two structureS which were be- gun in Phoenix and pursued amid all the fur0re of politics and the Concomi- tant blare of brass bands and glare of red fire. He cannot be justly accused of plagiarism in this article for both of these structures have been overlooked by the author of The Six Handsomest Buildings in the World" It is hardly necessary to refer tJ them. All that readers of The Republican have to do is to follow one of the various throngs which converge al the corner of Adams and C5Eter street every morning and watch the growth side by side of these two twin brides of Phoenix. The city is indebted to pr. L. H. Goodrich and Mr. Dwight B. Heard for this arcni- tectural ornamentation. Without the public, not to say the adventurous spirit Of these two gentlemen, the site where these majestic piles now rise would still be a barren sand lot, devct- ed to sign boards and ths stabling of jackasses. The enterprise was not entered upon precipitately. Both MT Heard and Dr. Goodrich are careful ard far-seeing business men. They are net given to the erection of foolish monuments, but looking down the vistas of time they beheld what was hidden from the gaze of most men. the future greatness of Phoenix. Then fol- lowed a period of incubation and neSo- tiation, the result of which was that Dr. Goodrich furnished the s-tes and MT. Heard the bricks. There was no de- lay occasioned by the floating of bonds and the sale of stocks. Everything was ready and the buildings sprang up as one might say, in the night, and by sur prise. The excavations for the founda- ti0n were made in an hour and the foundations were laid in another hour. N5Kher is quite completed So that a technical description is perhaps prema- ture. It may be said of the style for both are of the same school. that it is neither Ionic. nor Corinthian nor Composite. Neither is it of the more