The home is a 1947 brick ranch, restored carefully and decorated with intent. Original brick walls exposed in the living room. Light hardwood throughout. Three bedrooms, one full bath, an open living-dining-kitchen flow.
The living room. The room is anchored by a vintage Restoration Hardware leather sectional and a cowhide rug, a wood-plank coffee table that grounds the space, and a picture-frame TV that hangs like a painting. Wood benches, antique pieces, vintage lasso ropes layered in. A wall of windows + curtains filters the desert light. Designed to invite a long sit.
The kitchen. White shaker cabinets with matte-black hardware, stainless appliances, a butcher-block island with three counter-height chairs. Coffee station with a Keurig; mugs on a rack. Basic cooking staples stocked. The dining room next door has a wood table with industrial metal chairs and a bench — sets up for six.
The bedrooms. Three rooms, four beds, sleeps 8:
Primary — King, rust throw, two nightstands, twin windows
Second — Queen, cactus print, wood bench at the foot
Third — Two Twin XLs in iron frames, dorm-clean, the kids' / teens' / friends' room
The bathroom. One full bath, freshly renovated. Marble-tile shower + tub combo behind a frameless glass slider. White vanity with quartz counter. Plenty of natural light. The home sleeps 8 with one bath — works best for groups comfortable sharing (extended families, golf foursomes, snowbird couples-of-couples).
The backyard. A second living room. A large, deep private pool framed by a brick wall and overhead string lights. Big paver patio with a sectional, lounge beds, and a picnic table. Gas BBQ around the corner, propane provided. Palms and bougainvillea over the wall give it real privacy from the alley. Phoenix sunsets here hold for hours.
A small historical detail. Down the hallway, framed newspapers from 1965 — found in the walls of the back garage during the remodel, undisturbed for sixty years. Take a few minutes to read them; they're a small, accidental time capsule of mid-60s Phoenix and easily the weirdest little discovery of the renovation.
Guest access
The entire home, yard, and pool are yours during your stay. A small storage closet inside the home and the detached workshop in the back are locked — everything else is set up for you.
The neighborhood
The home sits in the North Encanto Historic District — a quiet pocket of 1940s and '50s brick ranch homes that holds the largest intact collection of Transitional Ranch architecture in metro Phoenix. The district was locally designated in 2002; the originals were designed by Phoenix architect Orville Bell in the late 1930s. It's a small, walkable, deeply residential neighborhood.
Encanto Park is a five-minute walk from the front door — 222 acres built by the WPA in the late 1930s, with a lagoon, a boathouse, a playground, an amusement park (Enchanted Island), and the 27-hole Encanto Golf Course (the third-oldest course in Arizona, designed in 1935 by William P. Bell).
A few blocks east: the Encanto-Palmcroft Historic District — the famous Spanish Colonial Revival estates district on curving palm-lined drives, platted in 1927–28. Walk those streets and you'll see why people fall hard for central Phoenix.
A handful of favorite spots within two miles:
• Pizzeria Bianco — James Beard pizza, downtown
• Bacanora — Sonoran Mexican, Grand Ave
• The Fry Bread House — Indigenous, the closest at 5 minutes
• Matt's Big Breakfast — downtown breakfast institution
• Restaurant Progress — 37-seat tasting menu, Melrose
• Welcome Diner — Southern comfort, Garfield
• Glai Baan — Northeast Thai, Midtown
• Durant's — classic Phoenix steakhouse, 1 mile
• Lux Central, Bang Bang, Lola Coffee, Cartel Coffee Lab — coffee within 5 minutes
• Bitter & Twisted, UnderTow, Lylo Swim Club — cocktails
• Uptown Farmers Market (Sat + Wed) — closest, 8 minutes
A fuller list lives in the housebook on the kitchen counter when you arrive.
Getting around
Phoenix is small and central — you're equidistant to everywhere:
• Phoenix Sky Harbor (Terminal 3) — 14 min drive
• Chase Field (Diamondbacks, MLB) — 8 min
• Phoenix Convention Center — 10 min
• Mortgage Matchup Center (Suns, NBA) — 10 min
• Heard Museum — 5 min
• Phoenix Art Museum — 7 min
• Roosevelt Row Arts District — 10 min
• Camelback Mountain (Echo Canyon) — 16 min
• Old Town Scottsdale — 19 min
• Sloan Park (Cubs Spring Training, Mesa) — 19 min
• Salt River Fields (D-backs / Rockies ST, Scottsdale) — 28 min
• TPC Scottsdale (WM Phoenix Open) — 30 min
• Desert Botanical Garden — 14 min
Encanto Park is a 5-minute walk from the front door.
Parking: four spots — two in the driveway, two on the street in front of the house. Light rail runs on Central Avenue. Uber and Lyft are both fast in central Phoenix.
City of Phoenix STR permit: STR-2026-001887 (SHAPE PHX). Operated under Zealth Estates LLC. TPT compliant.
