The Phoenix area's resort industry can trace some of its roots to the base of Camelback Mountain, just inside the grounds of The Phoenician in Scottsdale. That’s where a Pueblo Revival-style building, the last surviving piece of the Jokake Inn, has stood for nearly a century.

Jokake Inn Long before The Canyon Suites at The Phoenician, a beautiful Southwest retreat, nestled at the base of Camelback Mountain, made history here. In the late 1920s two friends built the Jokake Inn, a pueblo-style retreat that seemed to rise naturally from the desert sands.

The house was given its name by a young Hopi Indian boy who saw the structure and called it Jokake, which means mud house. Today, Jokake Inn stands just inside the grounds of The Phoenician as a symbol of the hospitality of the old Southwest.

Two years later, they expanded to include guest rooms in the winter season. Decorated with Southwestern arts and crafts, it was a haven for celebrities and rich winter visitors. Closed in the 1970s, the main building of the Jokake Inn still stands on the grounds of The Phoenician Resort.

A post office designated Jokake, Arizona existed from 1936-1944. The Jojake Inn is now on the grounds of the Phoenician resort. The envelope has printed in the upper left corner an illustration of the Jokake Inn, under which is printed, "Jojake Inn; Jokake, Arizona."

Built on the grounds of the historic Jokake Inn, the resort opened in 1988, a project of financier Charles Keating. [1] The resort has been awarded a AAA Five-Diamond rating. [2]

Dec 1, 2019 · The Jokake Inn operated from 1926 through 1979 with a 180 guest capacity before being sold to a land developer. All of the Jokake Inn buildings were razed except for the Main Building which was intended be used as a restaurant for the new hotel design that would become the Phoenician Resort

Designed by architect Robert T. Evans, husband of Jokake's founder Sylvia Evans, it was constructed using adobe bricks. The distinctive bell towers gave the resort a Southwestern ambiance that Sylvia and her friend Lucy Cuthbert carried out throughout the interior spaces.

The Original Twin Towers of the famous Jokake resort. Original built in the 1920's as a modest tea room, the Jokake Inn quickly evolved into an ideal desert retreat for artists, writers, actors, business tycoons and even U.S. Presidents.

Oct 6, 2017 · The Jokake is one of the more iconic historical structures that remain in the Phoenix Metro area – and its history is a story book “David vs Goliath” tale – the poor old noble and ignored Jokake Inn (last vestige of an Arizona landmark left un-destroyed by Charles Keating) vs the developers who are pushing to build even more than the ...