Nomination - ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS


The following images are of several documents associated with the
"Nomination of El Encanto Estates Residential Historic District to
the National Register of Historic Places" in 1988.  The nomination
contains an impressive description of the history of El Encanto,
its early residents, and its architectural and landscape plans. The
website file "history-1.html" contains the text of the nomination
document.


(1) cover letter from the Board for the copy of the nomination
document given to residents of contributing homes.

(2) announcement from State Historic Preservation Office of the
successful nomination.

(3) article from Arizona Daily Star on the nomination, April 15,
1988.

(4) sketch of the layout of El Encanto Estates, July 1928.

(5) sales map, by parcel, of El Encanto Estates, December, 1932.
Perhaps 20 percent of the lots had been sold, at prices ca. $3,000.
The minimum cost of homes to be built was $8,000, $10,000, or $12000,
according to the (barely legible) lot groupings at the bottom of
the sheet.