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Near Show Low Larry Muder was one of the last students to attend class at Shumway School. Later, Muder told a newspaper reporter about “Giant...

Flagstaff It’s not as big as Xanadu — the opulent mansion at the center of Citizen Kane — but the 13,000-square-foot Riordan Mansion...

Near Fredonia On the Arizona Strip, water can be nearly impossible to find. That’s what drew Mormon missionaries to Pipe Spring, which was the...

Flagstaff The building that today houses the Pioneer Museum is 108 years old, but if you want its true origin, you’ll have to go back further — a...

Patagonia The centerpiece of one of Southern Arizona’s most charming small towns is a depot built for the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad. The...

Petrified Forest National Park Stock-market turmoil took a toll on construction projects in the 1930s, but the Painted Desert Inn was an...

Phoenix It all started with Gustav Walter. Walter, a German impresario, dreamed of building a cross-country “Orpheum Circuit” of theaters for...

Ganado The Long Walk, the U.S. government’s forced relocation of some 9,000 Navajos in the 1860s, had a lasting effect on the Navajo identity and...