Rosson House

Rank in Arizona: #117of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 50.1 out of 100medium confidence
Category: Museum

Rosson House is a historic house museum in Heritage Square, at 113 North 6th Street on the corner of Monroe Street in Downtown Phoenix. It was built between 1894 and 1895 in the Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne styles of Victorian architecture, to a design by the San Francisco architect A. P. Petit, his last before his death. The house is named for Dr Roland Lee Rosson and his wife Flora Murray Rosson. It changed hands numerous times before being bought by the City of Phoenix and restored to its original condition, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Where it is

Rosson House is a museum near Phoenix, 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 Rosson House, 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: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Official site: http://heritagesquarephx.org(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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