Arizona Biltmore Hotel
| Arizona Biltmore Hotel | |
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Arizona Biltmore
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| Location | 2400 E Missouri Ave., Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 85016 |
| Opening | February 23, 1929 |
| Owner | Government of Singapore Investment Corporation |
| Management | Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Albert Chase McArthur |
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The Arizona Biltmore Hotel is a resort located in Phoenix near 24th Street and Camelback Road. It is part of Hilton Hotels' Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts and was also featured on the Travel Channel show Great Hotels.
The Arizona Biltmore has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.
Warren McArthur, Jr., and brother Charles McArthur along with John McEntee Bowman, the entrepreneur behind the Biltmore Hotel chain, opened the Arizona Biltmore on February 23, 1929.
The Arizona Biltmore's architect of record is Albert Chase McArthur, yet its authorship is often mistakenly attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, owing to Wright's on-site consulting for four months in 1928 relating to the masonry unit "Textile Block" construction. Some visitors say the hotel has the look and feel of a Wright building, especially in the main lobby, likely owing to a strong imprint of the unit block design that Wright had utilized on four residential buildings in the Los Angeles area some 6 years earlier. McArthur is indisputably the architect as original linen drawings of the hotel in the Arizona State University Library archives attest, as does the 1929 feature article in Architectural Record magazine. The two architects are a study in contrast with the famous and outspoken Wright being self-taught and never licensed as an architect in Arizona. The more soft-spoken McArthur was Harvard trained in architecture, mathematics, engineering, and music. McArthur obtained an architect's license in Arizona, number 338, in 1925, the year he arrived in Phoenix to begin his practice.
Adding to the confusion, in recent years, FLW influences have been added to the property such as a stained glass window design entitled "Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers" that Wright had designed as a magazine cover for Liberty Magazine in 1926 and was fabricated by Taliesin students and installed during the 1973 hotel renovations and restoration. Reproductions of the geometric 'sprite' statues originally designed by sculptor Alfonso Iannelli for Wright's 1915 Midway Gardens project in Chicago are placed around the property. Also, the original hotel solarium of 1929 was converted to a restaurant in 1973 and since the mid-1990s has been named 'Wright's'. Further, three on site restaurants bear Wright's name, Wright's at the Biltmore, The Wright Bar, and Frank & Albert's.
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