Hillcrest Historic District is an historic neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1990. It is often referred to as Hillcrest by the people who live there, although the district's boundaries actually encompass several neighborhood additions that were once part of the incorporated town of Pulaski Heights. The town of Pulaski Heights was annexed to the city of Little Rock in 1916. The Hillcrest Residents Association uses the tagline "Heart of Little Rock" because the area is located almost directly in the center of the city and was the first street car suburb in Little Rock and among the first of neighborhoods in Arkansas.
The Thurston House is a historic house at 923 Cumberland Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a blend of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. It has a hip roof with gabled dormer and cross gabled sections, and its porch is supported by Tuscan columns, with dentil molding at the cornice, and a spindled balustrade. It was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built about 1900.
Charles L. Thompson and associates is an architectural group that was established in Arkansas since the late 1800s. It is now known as Cromwell Architects Engineers, Inc.. This article is about Thompson and associates' work as part of one architectural group, and its predecessor and descendant firms, including under names Charles L. Thompson,Thompson & Harding,Sanders & Ginocchio, and Thompson, Sanders and Ginocchio.
The Darragh House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story frame structure, its exterior finished in brick and stucco, with a side gable roof pierced by broad shed-roof dormers, giving it a Dutch Colonial feel. The roof hangs over a recessed porch, supported by oversized Tuscan columns. Built about 1916, the house is a distinctive local example of the work of noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Elliott and Anna Barham House is a historic residence in Zinc, Arkansas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was the home of Elliott Barham, son of the founder of Zinc, Arkansas, and his wife, Anna Barham.
The H. M. Anderson House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Boone–Murphy House is a historic house located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The Compton-Woods House is a historic house at 800 High St. in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof configuration, and wooden clapboard and shingle siding. It is a fine local example of late Queen Anne Victorian style, with a three-story square tower in the crook of an L, topped by a pyramidal roof. Decorative cut shingles adorn the upper floor. The interior features high quality period woodwork in mahogany, oak, and pine. Built in 1902, it is a surviving example of houses that were typically seen in its neighborhood, just south of the Arkansas State Capitol.
The Solomon Gans House is a historic house at 1010 West 3rd Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry structure, built out of rusticated granite. Its front is dominated by a two-arched porch, and there is a turret with a bell-shaped roof on the right side. Built in 1896, it the only known local residence to be built in the Romanesque Revival style.
The Hotze House is a historic house at 1619 Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a combination of Georgian Revival and Beaux Arts styling. Its main facade has an ornate half-round two-story portico sheltering the main entrance, with fluted Ionic columns and a modillioned cornice topped by a balustrade. Windows are topped by cut stone lintels. The hip roof is topped by a balustrade. Built in 1900 to a design by Charles L. Thompson, its interior is claimed to have been designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Peter Hotze, for whom it was built, was a major cotton dealer.
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 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 Angelo Marre House, also known as Villa Marre, is a historic house at 1321 Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a high style Italianate house, two stories in height, with a flared mansard roof and a 2+1⁄2-story tower set above its entry. Built of painted brick, it has been a landmark of the city since its construction, and has had at least two notable occupants: Jeff Davis, a Governor of Arkansas, and Edgar Burton Kinsworthy, a state attorney general and long-serving state senator.
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 Snyder House is a historic house at 4004 South Lookout Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood frame with a distinctive blend of American Craftsman and Colonial Revival elements, built in 1925 to a design by the Little Rock firm of Sanders and Ginocchio. Its gable roof is bracketed, and it features an entry portico supported by large Tuscan columns. The gable of the portico has false half-timbering.
The Stewart House is a historic house at 1406 Summit Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a distinctive blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styling. It was built about 1910 to a design by Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson. Its asymmetric massing, with a high hipped roof and projecting gables, is typically Queen Anne, as are elements of the front porch. Its Ionic columns and dentillate cornice are Colonial Revival.
The Ten Mile House is a historic house at 6915 Stagecoach Road in the Mabelvale neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick building, with a gabled roof and four end chimneys, each pair joined by a high wall extending above the gable ridge. It was built sometime between 1822 and 1835 along what was then known as the Old Southwest Trail, which extended from Ste. Genevieve, Missouri to Texas. Its design is credited to Gideon Shryock, who designed the state house of the Arkansas Territory.
The William L. Terry House is a historic house at 1422 Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a roughly L-shaped 2-1/2 wood-frame structure, its appearance somewhat irregular due to the presence of projecting elements. Its porch extends across part of the front, and then the inside of the L, with bracketed square posts and a spindled balustrade. Built in the 1880s, it is a particularly elegant and restrained example of Queen Anne 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.
