365 N 4th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85003, USA

Coe House - National Register of Historic Places

Statement of Significance
The H. M. Coe House is significant under Criteria C under the area of the significance of Architecture. It is representative of the historic context "Residential Architecture in Phoenix Prior to 1901." Built-in 1895 and constructed in the Colonial Revival architectural style with Queen Anne influences, the H. M. Coe House is representative of the Builder’s Plan Book property type. The H. M. Coe House is also important in the area of Community Planning. As one of only three nineteenth-century buildings remaining in the La Villa Place subdivision of the Bennett Addition, which was originally subdivided in 1890, the H. M. Coe House represents a rare example of its period and the historic context "Nineteenth-Century Community Development in Phoenix."

A popular architectural style used during the plan book era was the Colonial Revival style. The use of the style in residential architecture was widespread in the late nineteenth century. Vernacular adaptations of plan book examples of the style, as demonstrated by the H.M. Coe House, were once common. The house illustrates a local interpretation of the plan book designs that resulted in a simply detailed building which incorporates the major stylistic concepts of Colonial architecture. With the exception of a modest rear addition and the installation of wood shutters, the Colonial Revival-inspired design of the H.M. Coe House remains intact Stylistic features include a typical square plan with offset ell variation covered by a hipped and intersecting gable roof. Other common architectural traits that illustrate the Colonial Revival style, influenced to a degree by the Victorian era, include the recessed entry veranda with shed roof and turned wood columns, a half-round gable window, shingled gable head, and molding and trim in classical shapes.