Scottsdale crafts center grows from early colonial art
Scottsdale founded nearly 20 years ago by a handful of artisans who opened a crafts colony in an abandoned meat market on E Main. By the late 1940s Lloyd Kiva Phillips Sanderson Lew Wayis and Mathilde Wayis moved to Fifth Ave where over 60 specialty shops now line Fifth Ave Craftsman's Court E and W Main St Pima Plaza Brown Ave and 1st Ave. The shops feature leather wood glass silver smithing ironwork stained glass pottery and more making Scottsdale a regional crafts hub.