1927 Pendley Homestead House Sedona

by Connie Fox

Title

1927 Pendley Homestead House Sedona

Artist

Connie Fox

Medium

Photograph - Outdoor Color Photo Artistic

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1927 Pendley Homestead House Sedona
Fine Art Photograph by Connie Fox

This house in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, was built in 1927 by Frank Pendley, who settled this area of the Colorado Plateau near Sedona in the early 1900s. He had been working on the Roosevelt Dam when he and his friend Ed Cauley scouted the canyon on burros between 1907 and 1909, and Pendley filed a claim on the property in 1910.

First, though, he had to find water and get it to the land. He tunneled through red rock, which was blasted through. According to his son Tom Pendley, steward of the Pendley Homestead at Slide Rock State Park, it was quite an engineering masterpiece. . . . He surveyed it with a rifle, a tripod, and a plumb-bob, and he shot from tree to tree to get his grade.

In 1921, Frank Pendley married 18-year-old Jane Hutchinson, who grew up in the area. On this land he developed a large apple orchard, and the house was built around the time the Pendleys were experiencing success in getting their product to various markets around Northern Arizona.

The Pendley Homestead Historic District, including Historic Orchards and this house, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Slide Rock Park was originally part of the homestead.

This photograph of the 1927 Pendley Homestead House, given a painterly look, would make a lovely addition to a wall of your home or office. Photographed in the summer of 1993 with a Minolta Freedom Escort and Kodak film. Scanned, restored, and made to look like a painting in 2014.

Copyright 1993-2014 Connie Steitz Fox
All Rights Reserved
Minolta film photograph, scanned and restored

As a high school and college student in Arizona, I have wonderful memories of this area, when my girlfriends and I had Slide Rock all to ourselves. I came here for camp and remember staying in one of the original cabins. Back then, in the Sixties, the area was unspoiled by tourism. I am proud to add Sedona to my Arizona Gallery, and hope you will enjoy all of my Arizona images.

Featured on the homepages of Seen But Not Noticed and Premium FAA Artists, September 2014, and Vintage America, September 2015.

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