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Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin West Taliesin West, near Scottsdale, Arizona, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Scottsdale

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Celebrate Día de los Muertos at these 6 metro Phoenix events • Oct. 22, 2026, 7:00 AM ET (The Arizona Republic)
Visitor Killed by Roof Debris at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West • Oct. 19, 2026, 2:25 PM ET (New York Times)
Natural Med Doc Rebrands as AZ Functional Care & Hormones and Launches New Website for Functional Medicine in Scottsdale • Oct. 16, 2026, 12:11 PM ET (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Scottsdale, city, Maricopa county, residential-resort suburb of Phoenix, south-central Arizona, U.S. Its business district (in a Western frontier motif) is an arts and crafts centre and features Arizona-oriented fashions alongside the latest offerings from Milan and Paris.

The city is traversed by several canals of the Salt River Project; lettuce, grain, and cotton are grown in the surrounding area. The community, originally a stagecoach stop between Camp McDowell and Phoenix, was founded in 1888 and named for Winfield Scott, who settled the site with his brother George in the late 1880s. Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural school, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019, and the Cosanti Foundation, an architectural and crafts complex devised by architect Paolo Soleri, are situated within the city. Inc. town, 1951; city, 1961. Pop. (2010) 217,385; (2020) 241,361.

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