TEMPE, Ariz. (KPNX) \u2014 The former home of Arizona’s fourth governor will soon be turned into a new restaurant concept by the owners of a Thai restaurant in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
The City of Tempe has announced that the Benjamin Baker Moeur House<\/a> and Hatton Hall, located near 7th Street and Mill Avenue, are expected to be turned into a new restaurant by the owners of Glai Baan<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Moeur House was originally built in 1893 and was purchased by Dr. Benjamin B. Moeur in 1896. He lived in the house until his death in 1937.<\/p>\n Moeur was the fourth person to serve as governor after he successfully defeated incumbent Gov. George W.P. Hunt to win his party’s nomination in 1932.<\/p>\n Moeur served as governor of Arizona during the Great Depression, from 1933 to 1937. He died just a couple of months after leaving office and was buried at Tempe’s Butte Cemetery.<\/p>\n “Through all of these undertakings, Moeur exhibited arguably one of the most unique and captivating personalities in Arizona, a cigar ever-present in his mouth, profanities streaming forth in every sentence, all the while acting as a humanitarian who cared more for others than for himself,” a biography of Moeur’s states<\/a> on the City of Tempe website.<\/p>\n In the 1990s, the City of Tempe adapted the Moeur House to be used as offices for the city council. The city has reported spending about $2 million on restoring and rehabilitating the century-old home and the surrounding property. Hatton Hall, which was added to the property in 1993, is named after former councilwoman Patricia A. Hatton.<\/p>\n The new restaurant concept is expected to open next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. (KPNX) \u2014 The former home of Arizona’s fourth governor will soon be turned into a new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,50,1589,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-50044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820452580489816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}