PHOENIX — A walk through the historic Willo neighborhood is like taking a walk down memory lane.

"Once they're gone, there's no way to rebuild them or replace them," Save Historic Arizona Co-Chair Opal Wagner said.

Sitting in the heart of Phoenix, stretching from McDowell to Thomas Road and Central and 7th Avenue, Willo is home to nearly 1,000 historic homes dating back to 1878.

“We have the most beautiful preserved examples of architecture going all the way from the early 1900s to the 1950s. That’s our period of significance," Wagner said. “It was a time when people built individually, hired individual architects and really had their own, made their own little house on their own lot.”

Currently, the City of Phoenix has protections to preserve these homes, but a new law that takes effe

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