[Source: Kathy Shayna Shocket, Republic] -- The 50-year-old adobe home where Sandra Day O'Connor often turned heated state politics into decisions over chalupas and tortillas will reign supreme once more as an arena for civic discourse. Rather than watching the adobe tucked away on a Paradise Valley cul-de-sac fall to a bulldozer, O'Connor and her friends are saving the home where she and husband John raised their three sons, Scott, Brian and Jay. "My husband John and I first bought over an acre of land for a grand sum of $4,000," the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice said during a nostalgic visit just before workers began dismantling the home for its move to Tempe. The home will be moved next to the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park and renamed the O'Connor House and Center for Civic Discourse. On her recent visit to the Denton Lane house, O'Connor slid her hand along an adobe wall as if it were one of the living desert creatures she adores. "John and I hand-scraped every one of these indentations in the adobe ourselves with an electric conduit, because the builder wasn't prepared to do that," she said. The O'Connors lived there from 1958 to 1981.
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