November 1st, 2024
Paradise Valley Town Council is moving forward with a minor General Plan amendment allowing for a new collection of homes to sprout where Ascension Lutheran Church once stood.
September 27th, 2024
The bell tower, a Pueblo-revival style building just inside the grounds of the Phoenician, is all that remains of the once legendary Jokake Inn, which got its start in the 1920s as a tearoom. Scott Jarson, a longtime realtor in town who specializes in architecturally unique homes, joined The Show to explain what makes the building near 60th Street and Camelback Road so exceptional.
The Casa Blanca Inn was built near Chaparral Road and 66th Street in Scottsdale about 100 years ago. The Show met up with Scott Jarson, a longtime realtor in the Valley who specializes in architecturally unique properties, to walk around the grounds of the former Casa Blanca Inn.
The first hidden gem is the Camelback Inn Chapel. Very modest in size, it would be easy to miss this piece of the resort’s history. Scott Jarson, a longtime realtor in town who specializes in architecturally unique properties, joined The Show to talk about what remains relatively unchanged roughly 85 years later.
August 29th, 2024
Crews are working to save a unique piece of architectural history. Ascension Lutheran Church near 68th Street and Indian Bend Road will be torn down, but efforts are being made to save the historic 77-foot spire – a piece of art that means a lot to the community.
August 22nd, 2024
When a group of Paradise Valley residents heard that the iconic Ascension Lutheran Church was sold last year to make way for new luxury homes, they jumped into action to save the property designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son-in-law and apprentice William Wesley Peters, in association with Taliesin Associated Architects.
August 8th, 2024
Paradise Valley residents, elected leaders and local architectural aficionados came together yesterday to discuss how a 77-foot spire designed by a student of Mr. Wright’s hailing from Taliesin West in the 1960s can be preserved in perpetuity.
The Show series Exit Interview featured a series of conversations with people who had made their mark on Phoenix — and then left. They hit a ceiling or needed to grow.
Now, Staying Power looks at people who have made Arizona their home — like real estate agents Scott and Debbie Jarson.
“It’s a true, unspoiled, midcentury modernist home,” says Scott Jarson, of az architecture. “It hasn’t had any negative changes to it.”
The partners of By Design Development found the Three Fountains condo unit through Realtor Scott Jarson, co-founder of azarchitecture.com, a Scottsdale real estate firm specializing in architecturally significant homes. “I’ve listed and sold a lot of the units at Three Fountains,” explains Jarson, who serves as the development team’s real estate advisor. “The one that Larry and Ben purchased is significant because it is virtually in original condition and has had very few updates.”
February 6th, 2020
“In the late 1980s, Scottsdale Realtors Debbie and Scott Jarson riding high on the era’s real estate and building boom, but the couple began realizing there was something missing from their professional lives. ‘We were selling everything and anything,’ Scott recall, ‘including tract homes that were not sensitive to the desert. We had burnout and began thinking that we were part of the urban sprawl problem the Valley was experiencing.’ Design aficionados, the pair took a leap of faith and launched Jarson & Jarson in 1990, their firm devoted to selling interesting, architecturally unique homes.”
June 26th, 2018
“Built in 1989, this recently restored 2,686-square-foot one-story is a site-sensitive ‘machine for the desert,’ explains Scott Jarson, co-principal of azarchitecture/Jarson & Jarson Real Estate. Hence, abundant natural light flows inside without increasing heat, even with the architect’s pioneering use of extensive glazing in the Valley. Beadle designed and built homes exemplifying indoor-outdoor living long before the concept became colloquial in Arizona. ‘This is an example of a master architect on top of his game, drawing together decades of experience in an effort that seems completely effortless.'”