Category:Tovrea Castle

English: Tovrea Castle is a historic structure and landmark at 5025 East Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona on 36-acre (15 ha) grounds bounded by the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202), Washington Street, and the building at 4949 East Van Buren Street. Locally known as the "Wedding Cake", it was built from 1929 to 1931 in a vernacular Modernist style by Alessio Carraro, and was originally intended as the hotel centerpiece of a planned destination resort, but was only used as a private residence. The castle is now part of the Phoenix parks system and is designated as one of the Phoenix Points of Pride. Plans were to fully open the site to the public in 2009, but cost overruns delayed the opening. Currently the park shows over 5,000 individual cacti in over 100 different varieties, all maintained by volunteers of the Tovrea Carraro Society. Guided tours are offered.

The castle was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Earlier names for the structure included "Carraro Heights" and "El Castillo". Current signs label it "Tovrea Castle at Carrarro Heights".