The Pioneer and Military Memorial Park is the official name given to seven historic cemeteries in Phoenix, Arizona.

[2][3] In 1884, the city counsel decided to purchase Block 32 in what archaeologists have now determined were the ruins of a pre-Columbian Hohokam community which they named "La Villa".

[2][3] The area which comprises the Pioneer and Military Memorial Park is bounded by 13th and 15th Avenues and Jackson and Harrison Streets.

The association began the preservation and restoration of the cemeteries in the Pioneers and Military Memorial Park.

However, their work was interrupted by the death of Thomas Hayden, the prime researcher, and by World War II.

[5] The Smurthwaite House was designed and built in 1897 by Creighton & Millard, a local firm, for Dr. Darius M. Purman and his wife, Mary.

That same year Captain Trustrim Connell, recipient of the Medal of Honor, and his wife Ann purchased the house.

[8] The "Bird's eye view of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona" map, created in 1885 by Czar James Dyer, is on display in the main room of the Smurthwaite House.

[9] The Smurthwaite House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 2001, NRHP reference number 01000479.