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| Location | 1900 Beechwood, Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 34°46′15″N92°19′28″W / 34.77083°N 92.32444°W Coordinates: 34°46′15″N92°19′28″W / 34.77083°N 92.32444°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1940 |
| Built by | Little Rock Builders |
| Architect | John Parks Almand |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 08000935 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 24, 2008 |
The Block Realty-Baker House is a historic house located at 1900 Beechwood in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It is a 2 1⁄2-story masonry structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof. Wood-framed ells extend to the rear, which are finished in weatherboard. The front roof is pierced by four gabled dormers, and the entrance, set in at the center of the front facade, is recessed in an opening with flanking sidelight and transom windows. The opening is topped by an entablature with cornice. It was designed in Colonial Revival style by architect John Parks Almand and built about 1940 by the Block Realty Company. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 2008. [1]
The Florence Crittenton Home is a historic house at 3600 West 11th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its main block is a two-story brick hip-roof structure, to which similarly-styled ells have been added to the right and rear. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance sheltered by a Colonial Revival portico supported by grouped columns and topped by a painted iron railing. The house was built in 1917 to a design by the architectural firm Thompson & Harding.
The Cornish House is a historic house at 1800 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a side gable roof, and a project center gable at the front, sheltering a porch with granite balustrade and posts. A porte-cochere extends north of the building, and a sunroom south. The house was built in 1917 to a designed by noted Arkansas architect Theodore Sanders, and is a well-preserved local example of Tudor Revival architecture.
The Bush House is a historic house at 1516 Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front gable roof and clapboard siding. A single-story gabled porch, its gable nearly matching that of the main roof, projects from the front, supported by fieldstone columns. The gable ends feature half-timbering effect typical of the Craftsman/Bungalow style. The house was designed by Thompson & Harding and built in 1919.
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The Dr. M.C. Hawkins House is a historic house at 4684 Arkansas Highway 8 in Parkdale, Arkansas. Built 1911–12, it is an excellent example of a Prairie School house designed by Little Rock architect Frank W. Gibb. It is a two-story structure faced in brick veneer, laid out in a T shape. The rectangular main block has a hip roof, while the kitchen wing, which extends to the rear, has a gabled roof. The main entrance is centered on the front facade, and is sheltered by a porch supported by brick columns and pilasters. The top of this porch functions as a deck, surrounded by brick posts and a simple wooden balustrade, which was originally a more complex jigsawn design.
The Bechle Apartment Building is a historic two-unit house at 1000 East 9th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2 1⁄2-story brick structure, with a hip roof pierced by a single hip-roof dormer at its front. The dormer has small windows laid out like a Palladian window, with Stick style decorative elements. A shed roof porch extends across the building front, supported by Tuscan columns mounted on short brick piers. The building was designed by Charles L. Thompson and was built in 1909.
The Fones House is a historic house at 902 West 2nd Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, topped by a steeply pitched gable roof with iron cresting at the top. Windows are set in round-arch or segmented-arch openings, with decorative hoods. The front facade has a single-story porch extending across it, supported by bracketed posts, and has a balcony with a decorative railing. The house was built in 1878 by Daniel G. Fones, a veteran of the American Civil War and a prominent local hardware dealer.
The Absalom Fowler House is a historic house at 502 East 7th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and a front portico supported by fluted Ionic columns and topped by a balustrade. The building is encircled by an entablature with modillion blocks and an unusual double row of dentil moulding giving a checkerboard effect. The house was built in about 1840 by Absalom Fowler, a lawyer prominent in the state's early history. The house is now surrounded by a multi-building apartment complex.
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 Johnson House is a historic house at 518 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 porch, supported by Tuscan columns, and the main roof eave features decorative brackets. A two-story polygonal bay projects on the right side of the front facade. 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 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 McLean House is a historic house at 470 Ridgeway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story Colonial Revival wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and weatherboard siding. The main entrance is distinguished by its surround, with Tuscan columns supporting an oversized segmented-arch pediment. Enclosed porches with paneled and pilastered corners extend to either side of the main block. The house designed by the architectural firm of Thompson and Harding and built around 1920.
The J.P. Runyan House is a historic house at 1514 South Schiller Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a dormered and flared hip roof and weatherboard siding. The roof extends in front over a full-width porch, with Classical Revival columns supporting and matching pilasters at the corners. The roof dormers have gable roofs, and have paired sash windows, with fish-scale cut wooden shingles in the gables and side walls. It was built in 1901 for Joseph P. Runyan, a local doctor, and was later briefly home to Governor of Arkansas John Sebastian Little.
The Safferstone House is a historic house at 2205 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story stuccoed building, with a gabled terra cotta roof. A single-story gabled porch extends to the front across the left half, with a rounded archway in the front. A recessed ell extends to the right of the main block, and a shed-roof bay projects to the left. The house was built in 1925 and designed by Sanders and Ginocchio (Cromwell), and is an example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture.
The Vaughan House is a historic house at 2201 Broadway in central Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a high brick foundation. A single-story porch extends across its front, supported by square posts set on stone piers. Gabled dormers in the roof feature false half-timbering above the windows. Most of the building's windows are diamond-paned casement windows in the Craftsman style. The house was built about 1910 to a design by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Vaughn House is a historic house at 104 Rosetta Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and an exterior of clapboard and stuccoed half-timbering. The roof eave is lined with large Craftsman brackets, and the roof extends over the front porch, showing rafter ends, and supported by stone piers. Built in 1914, it is a well-preserved local example of Craftsman architecture.
The William Woodruff House is a historic house at 1017 East 8th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a gabled roof. A single-story porch extends across the central portion of the front, supported by Doric columns, and there is a large gable dormer projecting from the roof, housing a pair of round-arch windows and a small half-round window in the gable. The core of the house was built in 1853 for William E. Woodruff, publisher of the first newspaper west of the Mississippi River.
The Eugene Towbin House is a historic house at 16 Broadview Drive in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was built in 1960 to a design by Hollis Beck, and is a good local example of Mid-Century Modern architecture. It is a single-story frame structure, its walls finished in vertical board siding and resting on a concrete block foundation. It is covered by a low-pitch side-facing gabled roof with deep eaves. The roof extends to the right beyond the main block to also shelter a carport. Eugene Towbin, for whose family the house was built, was a prominent physician in Little Rock.
The Block Realty Building is a historic commercial building at 723 West Markham Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, built out of steel and concrete, with a flat roof. It is supported by corten steel columns, with its first floor predominantly finished in glass, and the upper level in aggregate concrete tiles. It was built in 1964 to a design by architect-engineer Eugene Levy, and is a good local example of commercial Mid-Century Modern architecture.
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