0.6 miles away
Sea Life Arizona
A 26,000-square-foot aquarium at Tempe's Arizona Mills mall, with 30 displays, touch pools and a 360-degree ocean tunnel.
Petersen House Museum
A restored 1892 Queen Anne Style brick house in Tempe, built by an early settler and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Rank in Arizona
- #428of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 36.0 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Niels Petersen House, known locally as the Petersen House Museum, is a historic landmark in Tempe, Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1892 by one of Tempe's earliest settlers, it is a restored example of Queen Anne Style brick architecture in the Salt River Valley.
Where it is
Petersen House Museum is a museum near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Petersen House Museum, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.tempe.gov/government/community-services/tempe-history-museum/petersen-house-museum(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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2.1 miles away
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ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 36.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 7.2
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- tempe.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.3935, -111.9618
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12