A historic downtown Phoenix home once threatened with demolition will now be saved and converted into a restaurant.
Phoenix City Council on Wednesday approved a $400,000 grant for the Seargent-Oldaker home, a brick Craftsman bungalow built in 1909 on Third Avenue just south of Roosevelt Street.
The grant will help the owner relocate the home to the northwest corner of the lot “to facilitate adaptive reuse of the building as commercial restaurant space,” according to city documents. The restaurant is slated to be one part of a larger development that includes housing planned for the area.
The Seargent-Oldaker home was once home to prominent Phoenix leader Elizabeth Oldaker, who was sworn into the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame for having spent 40 years of her life dedicated to preserving Phoenix history.
The home was considered an architectural gem for the 60-plus years Oldaker; her husband and her mother lived in it, and it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Phoenix.
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