fired brick and wood instead of adobe bricks. Brick was Petit's preferred building material. At least one local brick-making factory had previously been established, and some fine examples of early brick houses that predate the Rosson House include the mansion built in 1887 for John T. Dennis at 242 E. Monroe and its neighbor at 230 E. Monroe built for M. Jacobs. The John T. Dennis mansion was demolished in the 1950s. Additionally, there was the large house built for Columbus Gray in 1890, and the J.Y.T. Smith House at 5th St. and Adams reportedly dates from 1892. Almost all of the early hotels of Phoenix were made out of locally produced red bricks as well. A number of smaller homes were built outside the city limits in the 1880s by J.J. Welty, and made out of poured concrete blocks made to look like hewn stone. There is also the mansion built by John T. Dennis' neighbor Clark Churchill which later became the first home of Phoenix Union High School. Access Heritage Square Foundation and Guild operates the restored Rosson House as a historic house museum in the city of Phoenix Heritage and Science Park and offers public tours. See also Heritage Square, Phoenix References Notes Bibliography Historic Heritage Square (c) 2013 by Donna J. Reiner, John Jacquemart and Douglas C. Towne External links Houses completed in 1895 Historic house museums in Arizona Houses in Phoenix, Arizona Museums in Phoenix, Arizona Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona Queen Anne architecture in Arizona Victorian architecture in Arizona Historic American Buildings Survey in Arizona National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona 1895 establishments in Arizona Territory Gilded Age mansions