Boone County Jail | |
Location | Central Ave. and Willow St., Harrison, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 36°13′45″N93°6′30″W / 36.22917°N 93.10833°W Coordinates: 36°13′45″N93°6′30″W / 36.22917°N 93.10833°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1914 |
Architect | Charles L. Thompson |
NRHP reference No. | 76000388 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 12, 1976 |
The Boone County Jail is a historic jail building at Central Ave. and Willow St. in Harrison, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick building, built in 1914. Its design has been attributed to prominent Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson. Its hip roof is finished in red tile, as is the roof of the single-story porch sheltering the main entrance. The jail was laid out to house the jailer on the first floor, and the prisoners on the second. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its architecture. [1]
The W.S. McClintock House is a historic house at 83 West Main Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a grand two-story wood-frame Classical Revival building designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. The symmetrical main facade has at its center a massive two-story portico supported by groups of Ionic columns, with a dentillated cornice and a flat roof. A single-story porch extends from both sides of this portico, supported by Doric columns, and wrapping around to the sides of the house. This porch is topped by an ironwork railing.
The Clark County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, the seat of Clark County. It is a 2-1/2 story Romanesque stone structure which was designed by Charles Thompson and completed in 1899. It is a basically rectangular structure with a hip roof, and a six-story tower rising from the northwest corner. It has a hip roof from which numerous hipped gables project, and there are corner turrets with conical roofs. It is the county's second courthouse.
The Farrell Houses are a group of four houses on South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. All four houses are architecturally significant Bungalow/Craftsman buildings designed by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson as rental properties for A.E. Farrell, a local businessman, and built in 1914. All were individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their association with Thompson. All four are also contributing properties to the Governor's Mansion Historic District, to which they were added in a 1988 enlargement of the district boundaries.
The White House is a historic house at 1101 Perry Street in Helena, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1910 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. The Colonial Revival building has a pyramidal roof with projecting gable sections. A single-story porch wraps around two sides of the house, supported by grouped Tuscan columns. The front entry is framed by sidelight windows and pilasters. It is the only surviving Thompson design in Helena.
The Boone County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Harrison, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1907. It is Georgian Revival in style, with a hip roof above a course of dentil molding, and bands of cast stone that mark the floor levels of the building. It has a projecting gabled entry section, three bays wide, with brick pilasters separating the center entrance from the flanking windows. The gable end has a dentillated pediment, and has a bullseye window at the center.
The Boone House is a historic house located at 4014 Lookout in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Galloway Hall is a residence hall on the campus of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. It is a large Tudor Revival three story brick building, designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1913. Its central portion has a gabled roof, with end pavilions that have hip roofs with gabled dormers, and stepped parapet gables, with limestone trim. It is the oldest dormitory building on the campus. It was named to honor Bishop Charles Betts Galloway.
The Columbia County Jail is a historic structure at Calhoun and Jefferson Streets in Magnolia, Arkansas. The brick two story structurewas designed by Thompson & Harding and was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Italian Renaissance architecture. It is faced in cream-colored brick, and has a terracotta hipped roof. It has an entrance portico with round arches supported by slender columns and gargoyles at its corners.
The Joe P. Eagle and D. R. Boone Building is a historic commercial building at 105-107 West Front Street in downtown Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick building, with a sloping flat roof obscured by parapet, and a brick foundation. It is divided into two sections, articulated by brick pilasters. The left half has an original storefront on the first floor, with plate glass display windows flanking a recessed entrance, while the right half has a more modern (1960s) appearance, with a central display window, with the store entrance on the right and a building entrance to the upper floor on the left. The second-floor on both halves has tripled sash windows, the center one larger, all topped by transom windows. The building was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1905.
The Gazzola and Vaccaro Building is a historic commercial building at 131–133 West Cypress in Brinkley, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with a flat roof fronted by a broad curved parapet. The horizontal banding of windows and decorative elements above are indicators of the Prairie School of design. The building was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and completed in 1916; it is an imposing presence and the small city's most sophisticated architectural building.
The J.M. McClintock House is a historic house at 43 Magnolia Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912, whose Craftsman/Bungalow styling is in marked contrast to the W.S. McClintock House, a Colonial Revival structure designed by Thompson for another member of the McClintock family and built the same year. This house has the broad sweeping roof line with exposed rafters covering a porch supported by brick piers and paired wooden box posts on either side of the centered stair. A dormer with clipped-gable roof is centered above the entry.
The Benton County Jail is a historic county jail building at 212 North Main Street in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States. It is a two-story brick Classical Revival building, designed by A. O. Clark and completed in 1911. It has pronounced limestone corner quoining, and its main entrance is flanked by Ionic columns and topped by a gabled pediment. The building is notable as a rare smaller-scale work by Clark.
The Duncan House is a historic house in 610 West Central Avenue in Harrison, Arkansas. It is a 1 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and a busy roofline typical of the Queen Anne style. Distinctive features include metal cresting on the ridge lines, and a wraparound porch with tapered columns and turned balustrade. An octagonal cupola caps the roof. The house was built in 1893 by William Duncan, a local builder, for his own use. It is one of Harrison's few remaining houses of the period which has retained its Queen Anne features.
The Evans-Kirby House is a historic house at 611 South Pine Street in Harrison, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure on a sandstone foundation, with a busy roofline and asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne style. The roof is punctuated with five dormers of different sizes and shapes, and the walls are finished with clapboards and decoratively-cut shingles. The porch is adorned with spindled friezes and brackets. The property also includes a period barn/carriage house and garage, the latter over an original smoke cellar. The house was built in 1895 for Dr. E.L. Evans, who sold it in 1906 to his brother-in-law, Dr. Frank Kirby.
Twelve Oaks, or the J.W. Bass House, is a historic farm estate at 7210 Arkansas Highway 7 South in rural Boone County, Arkansas, south of Harrison. The main house is a dramatic and architecturally eclectic two-story building with a variety of Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Mission style details. It is a stucco-finished concrete construction, whose roof has exposed rafter tails, and was originally finished in tile, replaced after a 1973 tornado extensively damaged the property. At the time of its construction in 1922, it was one of the finest plantation houses in the state. It was built by J. W. Bass, a businessman responsible for the construction of a number of Harrison's finest buildings, who developed a 1,600-acre (650 ha) farm south of the city, with this property as its centerpiece. It was named "Twelve Oaks" after a grove of twelve large oak trees, none of which survived the 1973 tornado.
The Old Scott County Jail is a historic former county jail at 125 West 2nd Street in Waldron, Arkansas. It is currently home to the Scott County Historical and Genealogical Society. The building is a two-story structure, built of fieldstone covered in concrete, with a flat roof and a stone foundation. It has a single entrance, which has sidelight windows, and its windows now have decorative shutters rather than iron bars. The jail was built in 1907–08, and was used for its original purpose until the 1930s, when it was adapted for use as Waldron's public library. The library occupied the building between 1938 and 1947, and it was used for a time by local Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations. It has housed the historical society since 1987.
The Beebe Jail is a historic jail building in Beebe, Arkansas. The small single-story concrete structure is set on an alley south of East Illinois Street on the east side of North Main Street. It is distinctive for its slightly rounded concrete roof, with a parapet rising above the front (southwest) facade. The interior has two small cells, each with a barred window, and a small vestibule area. The jail was built as a Works Progress Administration project in 1935.
The Woodruff County Courthouse is a historic courthouse at 500 North 3rd Street in Augusta, the county seat of Woodruff County, Arkansas. It is a monumental brick Romanesque Revival building, designed by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1900. It is roughly rectangular with a hip roof, but has projecting sections as well as a five-stage tower, capped by a pyramidal roof. Its main entrance is to the left of the tower, recessed in a round-arch opening.
The former Franklin County Jail is a historic building at 3rd and River Streets in Ozark, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of native sandstone. It is roughly cubic in shape, with a flat roof obscured by a crenellated parapet, and its entrance set in a Romanesque arch. It was built in 1914, and has been rehabilitated to house professional offices.
The Shull House is a historic house at 418 Park Avenue in Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a large 1-1/2 story building, its exterior clad in a combination of half-timbered stucco and brick. The roof is tiled, with clipped gables and eaves that show exposed rafter ends in the American Craftsman style. Windows are typically multipane casement windows in groups. The house was built in 1918 to a design by Thompson and Harding.