Built 1938 NRHP Reference # 09000311 Area 6,100 m² | Architectural style Pueblo Revival Opened 1938 Added to NRHP 20 May 2009 | |
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Location 300 S. Chandler Village Drive, Chandler, Arizona Architect Lescher & Mahoney; Mougeot, J.W. Similar Chandler Museum, Arizona Railway Museum, Tumbleweed Park, Chandler Fashion Center, Chandler Center for the Arts | ||
The mccullough price house
The McCullough-Price House is a 1938 pueblo revival home in Chandler, Arizona. The Chandler Museum is located in the house.
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History
It was built as a winter residence for William D. McCullough of Detroit in 1938, but it was acquired by Arthur and Louise Price in 1950. (Louise Price was the niece of Dr. A. J. Chandler, who founded the city named after him.) In 2001, their daughter, Suzanne Price Propstra, donated the home to the city. By this time, it had been vacant and had become run down. Meanwhile, around the pueblo, major development was occurring, as Chandler Fashion Center was under construction (to open in October 2002). The city began to renovate the property into a state-recognized visitors center which opened in 2007 after $850,000 had been spent on improvements. But financial troubles and "fail[ure] to connect with an audience" (according to the city museum administrator Jody Crago) forced its closure in 2009. That same year, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It reopened in 2011 as an archive research center focusing on local history, office space for museum staffers (moving from the museum in downtown Chandler) and satellite exhibition space.