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PRESCOTT CAMPUS Prescott, Arizona is a rapidly growing mountain town with old western mining roots. A city of 34,000 located about 90 miles northwest of Phoenix offers a mountain mile-high elevation, and enjoys a four-season climate with both mild winters and beautiful mountain top summers. Daytime temperatures rarely exceed 85 degrees, and winter days are filled with sunshine. Humidity is a moderate 45% year-round. July marks Prescott's monsoon season with cool afternoon thunderstorms.
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Built around a traditional courthouse square with many of the original building still standing, Prescott offers a look into the past with the popular Whiskey Row, Thumb Butte, and other local attractions. Prescott developed rapidly and in 1865 was described as being built exclusively of wood and inhabited almost entirely by Americans. Both of these facts made it unique among early communities in Arizona. Prescott lost its title as the Capital of Arizona to Tucson and finally to Phoenix in 1889. In 1900, a devastating fire burned Prescott to the ground; but it was rebuilt, and many of the buildings you see today are reminders of its past. Today, the older residential streets are lined with tall trees and pitched-roof frame houses, including turreted Victorians. Prescott has many homes and businesses on the National Register of Historic Places and its white granite courthouse, set among green lawns and spreading trees, reflects the Midwestern and New England background of Prescott's pioneers. Prescott is Arizona's past, present and future, and the city cherishes its rich history, with over 700 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places - more than any other town its size in Arizona.
