McCullough-Price House

The McCullough-Price House stands near the historic core of Chandler, Arizona, on the south edge of the metropolitan Phoenix area in the agricultural lands that for decades supported the town's cotton, alfalfa, and dairy operations. The house was built in 1938 by the McCullough family and later sold to the Price family, who occupied it for much of the twentieth century. It is one of the few high-style Pueblo Revival residences from the late Depression period to survive in the Chandler townsite essentially intact.

Construction is stuccoed masonry executed in the mature Pueblo Revival vocabulary: a single-story, flat-roofed, rectangular massing with rounded parapets, projecting wooden vigas, deeply recessed openings, and a small enclosed patio in the side-courtyard manner of the older Hispanic tradition. Surface finishes are sand-floated stucco scored to suggest large adobe blocks, with exposed wooden lintels and painted casement windows. The house plan is compact and economical, in keeping with its construction in the depths of the agricultural depression, but the detailing is careful and the proportions consistent with published Pueblo Revival precedent.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 under reference number 09000311. After the Price family's tenure the City of Chandler acquired the building and rehabilitated it for adaptive reuse, retaining the principal exterior elevations and interior arrangement while introducing the systems needed for institutional occupancy.

The house now operates as a satellite facility of the Chandler Museum and is open to the public on a regular schedule. Within Arizona's adobe tradition the McCullough-Price House is significant as a small, late-1930s Pueblo Revival residence whose careful detailing and intact preservation make it a useful study example of how the style was scaled and economized for ordinary central-Arizona suburban building at the close of the territorial-into-modern transition.