Abrams House | |
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| Location | 300 S. Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 34°44′52″N92°17′6″W / 34.74778°N 92.28500°W Coordinates: 34°44′52″N92°17′6″W / 34.74778°N 92.28500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1904 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000221 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 18, 1999 |
The Abrams House is a historic house located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It is a single-story, timber-framed structure, with asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period and porch detailing with Colonial Revival features. It has a cross-gable plan, with the porch wrapping around two sides, with wide bands of trim and four Doric columns. Built in 1904, it is one of the few surviving houses from a period when the immediate area (near the Arkansas State Capitol) was lined with the houses of railroad employees. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 18, 1999. [1]
The Joseph Taylor Robinson House is a historic house at 2122 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1904 for a wealthy lumber merchant, it was the home of Arkansas governor and United States Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson between 1930 and 1937, the period of his greatest influence. Robinson (1872-1937) served as Senate Majority Leader from 1933–37, and was instrumental in the passage of New Deal legislation during the Hundred Days Congress which followed the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States. Roosevelt was a guest of Robinson's at this house in 1936. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
The Williamson House is a historic house at 325 Fairfax Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and brick foundation. Its roof has exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style, and a wraparound porch supported by simple square columns. The projecting entry porch has a gable with decorative false half-timbering, and is supported by grouped columns. The house was designed by Little Rock architect Theodore Sanders and was built about 1911. Photos of the house were used in promotional materials for the subdivision in which it is located.
The Ragland House is a historic house at 1617 South Center Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with asymmetrical massing characteristic of the Queen Anne period. Its exterior is elaborately decorated with bands of cut shingles on the second level, and a bulbed turret at one corner. A single-story porch wraps around the tower to the side, with a jigsawn valance and Stick style balustrade. Built about 1891–92, it is unusual as an early work of the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, who is better known for more Colonial Revival designs. The house was built for Mr. and Mrs. William Ragland. After the Raglands moved, Mrs. Ragland's parents, Edmond and Henriette Urguhart lived there until his death in 1905.
The Nash House is a historic house at 601 Rock Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. A two-story gabled section projects on the right side of the main facade, and the left side has a two-story flat-roof porch, with large fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature and dentillated and modillioned eave. Designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1907, it is a fine example of a modestly scaled Colonial Revival property. Another house that Thompson designed for Walter Nash stands nearby.
The Keith House is a historic house at 2200 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof. A single-story gabled porch projects from the center of the main facade, supported by brick piers, with exposed rafter ends and large Craftsman brackets. The house was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. It is a particularly well-executed combination of Craftsman and Prairie School features.
The England House is a historic house at 2121 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a broad two-story brick building, capped by a hip roof with gabled dormers. The main facade has a porch extending across its facade, supported by large brick piers. Its basic form is reminiscent of the Prairie School of design, but the house has Classical elements, including its south side porch, which is supported by large Tuscan columns. The house was built in 1914 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Fletcher House is a historic house at 909 Cumberland Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare house, with a dormered hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a single-story hip-roofed porch across the front. Built in 1900, it is a well-kept version of a "budget" Foursquare developed by architect Charles L. Thompson. It has simple Colonial Revival style features, including the porch columns and balustrade.
The Howell-Garner-Monfee House is a historic house at 300 West Fourth Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a wide gable roof pierced by gabled dormers. A single-story porch wraps around the east and north sides, with brick posts and a dentil course in the eave. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and sidelights, with a distinctive transom window that has semi-circular sections joined by a straight section. Built in 1906, it is one of the best-preserved examples of housing built in the city's most fashionable neighborhood of that period.
The H. M. Anderson House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Frederick Hanger House is a historic house at 1010 Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with complex massing and exterior typical of the Queen Anne style. It is topped by a gable-on-hip roof, from which numerous gables project, including two to the front, and has walls sheathed in clapboards and bands of decorative cut shingles. A porch extends across the front, supported by turned posts, with a balustrade of wooden circles joined by posts to each other and the supporting posts. It was built in 1889 for one of Little Rock's most prominent businessmen of the period, and is a particularly little-altered example of the Queen Anne style in the city.
The Johnson House is a historic house at 514 East 8th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story American Foursquare style house, with a flared hip roof and weatherboard siding. Its front facade is covered by a single-story modillioned shed-roof porch, supported by Ionic columns. Built about 1900, it is one of a group of three similar rental houses on the street by Charles L. Thompson, a noted Arkansas architect.
The Johnson House is a historic house at 516 East 8th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story American Foursquare house, with a hip roof that has a projecting cross-gable section at the front. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built about 1900 to a design by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and is one of a group of three similar houses intended as rental properties.
The Leiper-Scott House is a historic house at 312 South Pulaski Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a hip roof adorned with gabled and hipped projections and dormers in an asymmetrical style typical of the Queen Anne period. A porch extends across part of the front around to the side, supported by Tuscan columns mounted on brick piers, with a balustrade between them. The house was built in 1902 for Eric Leiper, owner of a local brickyard, and is locally unusual as a relatively modestly-scaled house built in brick.
The Marshall Square Historic District encompasses a collection of sixteen nearly identical houses in Little Rock, Arkansas. The houses are set on 17th and 18th Streets between McAlmont and Vance Streets, and were built in 1917-18 as rental properties Josephus C. Marshall. All are single-story wood-frame structures, with hip roofs and projecting front gables, and are built to essentially identical floor plans. They exhibit only minor variations, in the placement of porches and dormers, and in the type of fenestration.
The Mehaffey House is a historic house at 2102 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and weatherboard siding. It has irregular massing characteristic of the late Victorian period, but has a classical Colonial Revival porch, with Tuscan columns supporting a dentillated and modillioned roof. The main entrance features a revival arched transom. The house was built about 1905 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Pearson–Robinson House is a historic house at 1900 Marshall Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a dormered hip roof, and a broad porch extending across the front. The porch is supported by brick piers, and has a bracketed eave. It was built in 1900 by Raleigh Pearson, and was purchased in 1903 by future United States Senator and Governor of Arkansas Joseph Taylor Robinson. It has also been home to Governors George W. Hays, Charles H. Brough, Thomas C. McRae, and Tom Jefferson Terral.
The Reid House is a historic house at 1425 Kavanaugh Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large two-story wood frame structure, built in 1911 in the Dutch Colonial style to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. It has a side-gable gambrel roof that extends over the front porch, with shed-roof ]]dormer]]s containing bands of sash windows flanking a large projecting gambreled section. The porch is supported by stone piers, and extends left of the house to form a porte-cochere.
The Retan House is a historic house at 2510 South Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a modest two-story frame structure, with shallow-pitch hip roof with broad eaves. A single-story porch extends across the front, with a broad gable roof supported by stone piers. The entrance is on the left side, and there is a three-part window at the center of the front under the porch. Above the porch are a band of four multi-pane windows in the Prairie School style. The house was built in 1915 to a design by Charles L. Thompson, and is one of his finer examples of the Prairie School style.
The Turner-Ledbetter House is a historic house at 1700 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, its exterior mostly finished in brick, with a hip roof and a variety of dormers, projections, porches, and decorative elements typical of the Queen Anne period of architecture. Notable features include a three-story turret with flared conical roof, an entry porch with turned posts, bracketing, and a spindled balustrade, and windows with stone sills. The house was built in 1891-92 for Susan Turner, and was given additional Craftsman styling during renovations in the early decades of the 20th century.
The Womack House is a historic house at 1867 South Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a low-pitch gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. A cross-gabled porch extends across the front, supported by sloping square columns. The gable ends are supported by knee brackets, and the eaves have exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style. The house was built in 1922 for Dr. A. A. Womack, a prominent African-American doctor of the period.
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