A transit route through the neighborhood
A walk along 10th Street can also be a walk along one of Coronado’s early transportation routes. The Coronado Neighborhood Association’s history identifies the Brill Line trolley as running on 10th Street from Washington Street to Sheridan Street between 1913 and 1946. That route belongs to a period when the neighborhood was growing outward from central Phoenix and daily movement did not depend on the same network of cars and roads we know today.
The neighborhood changed with the way people traveled
The National Register documentation gives useful context for that local memory. It describes Coronado as a neighborhood promoted as a streetcar suburb, then later dependent on the automobile because of its distance from Phoenix’s main commercial hub. The document points to features still associated with that later shift—detached garages and porte-cocheres—as part of the neighborhood’s physical record. Streetcar service, then, is not a stand-alone anecdote: it is one layer in a changing pattern of how people reached home, work, school, and the city center.
That change also cautions against treating a historic district as frozen in time. Coronado’s streets, homes, and travel habits developed across decades. The Brill Line is a useful way to notice that history along 10th Street, while the garages and other automobile-era features help tell the next chapter.