La Hacienda

This business appears in the 1932 Phoenix Telephone Directory as being east of Chandler. Its phone number was 46.

La Hacienda Hotel is listed in the 1940 Chandler (Arizona) Resident Directory as being on Commonwealth, half a mile east of Chandler. Its phone number was 12. Mrs. Marian C. Haroldson was manager. It was also referred to in the directory as La Hacienda Inn.

Doctor Chandler offered Frank Lloyd Wright housing in La Hacienda, a structure originally intended as polo stables, but converted into a hotel.  La Hacienda suited Wright because it offered ample room and outdoor space for Wright and his students to work.  Wright and his students spent the winters of 1935 and 1936 at La Hacienda before moving to their new home at Taliesin West in Scottsdale. It was during their time at La Hacienda that Wright and his students built their model of Broadacre City

Photographs of La Hacienda