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 Governor's Mansion Historic District is a historic district covering a large historic neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and its borders were increased in 1988 and again in 2002. The district is notable for the large number of well-preserved late 19th and early 20th-century houses, and includes a major cross-section of residential architecture designed by the noted Little Rock architect Charles L. Thompson. It is the oldest city neighborhood to retain its residential character.
The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2009. The district covers the historic core of the University of Arkansas campus, including 25 buildings.
The Baer House is a historic house located at 1010 Rock Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Dean House is a historic house off U.S. Route 165 in Portland, Arkansas. The 1+1⁄2-story house was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1910. Stylistically, it is a Creole cottage, a simple rectangular shape mounted in a foundation with brick piers. The roof extends over a wraparound porch, which is supported by Tuscan columns. The roof is pierced by a pair of gabled dormers that are decorated with fish-scale shingles.
The Frauenthal House is a historic house in Conway, Arkansas. It was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1913, exhibiting a combination of Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and Craftsman styling. It is a two-story brick building, topped by a gabled tile roof with exposed rafter ends in the eaves. A Classical portico shelters the entrance, with four Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and full pedimented and dentillated gable. The 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) house, with 22 rooms, was built for Jo and Ida Baridon Frauenthal and is currently occupied by the Conway Regional Health Foundation.
The Barnett-Attwood House is a historic house outside New Edinburg in Cleveland County, Arkansas. It is believed to be the oldest standing structure in the county.
The Henry Crawford McKinney House is a historic house at 510 East Faulkner Street in El Dorado, Arkansas. The 2+1⁄2-story red brick and stucco house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1925; it is one of the most elegant houses in the city, and is set on an elaborately landscaped parcel. The house was built for Henry Crawford McKinney, Sr., a prominent local landowner and banker, during the height of El Dorado's oil boom. Its interior decoration was done by Paul Heerwagen, best known for his murals in the Arkansas State Capitol.
The Nutt–Trussell Building is a historic commercial building at 202 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas, USA. Built in 1883, this two-story structure was the first brick building erected in Fordyce, a railroad town in southwestern Arkansas. Its exterior was covered in stucco c. 1920. It was built by Robert Nutt, who operated a dry goods shop on the premises. It later housed the Bank of Fordyce, and its upper floor has a long history of use for social club meetings, and also housed the city's first telephone exchange. The descendants of L. L. Trussell, a later owner, gave the building to the city in 2000 for use as a local history museum.
The Kittrell House is a historic house at 1103 Hickory Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a two-story Foursquare wood-frame house with a hipped roof, set on a high brick foundation. It sits on a terraced corner lot, raised above the sidewalk level by a low wall. A full-width single-story porch extends across the main facade, supported by Ionic columns and with a balustrade of urn-shaped balusters. The house was designed by Charles L. Thompson, a noted Arkansas architect, and built c. 1900–10.
The Kindley House is a historic house at 503 Charlotte Street in Gravette, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, set on a heavy stone foundation, with a hip roof and an L-shape configuration that includes a small single-story section in the crook of the L. There is a porch that is decorated with heavy Italianate scrollwork. Built in the 1870s of locally made brick, it is one of a number of high-quality Italianate brick houses in Benton County.
The Myler House is a historic house at 315 North Third Street in Rogers, Arkansas, USA. It is a single story L-shaped structure, built of brick with limestone trim. Prominent trim elements include corner quoining, stone segmental arches above the windows, and a stone beltcourse that coincides with the window sills. The house was built c. 1895 by C. R. Crowe, a prominent local stonemason, for his family. Crowe and his son-in-law, John Myler, are believed to be responsible for much the stone trim work of buildings erected in the area in the early 20th century, and this house is likely attributable to Crowe.
The John Bettis House is a historic house on the north side of Arkansas Highway 14 in Pleasant Grove, Arkansas, a short way south of its junction with Stone County Road 32.
The Dr. John L. Butler House is a historic house at 313 Oak Street in Sheridan, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. A gabled section projects on the left front facade, with a fully pedimented gable that has an oculus window at its center. To the right is a porch that wraps around the side of the house, supported by Doric columns set on brick piers. The interior retains most of its original walnut woodwork, including pocket doors. Built in 1914 for a prominent local doctor, it is one of the city's finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.
The Nichol House is a historic house at 205 Park Place in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, its exterior finished in a combination of brick veneer and stucco. A single-story shed-roofed porch extends across the front, supported by brick piers, with a second-story enclosed porch above the right side. Gable ends feature large Craftsman brackets and exposed rafter ends. The house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and was built in 1916 for a local banker.
The William H. Lightle House is a historic house at 601 East Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a roughly L-shaped 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and brick foundation. It has vernacular Italianate styling, with tall and narrow segmented-arch windows, and a shed-roof porch supported by square posts set on pedestal bases. The house was built in 1881 for a prominent local businessman, and is one of the county's few Italianate residences.
The W.P. Fletcher House is a historic house at 604 West Fourth Street in Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a hip-roofed main block and a gabled ell to the rear. It is clad in weatherboard and set on a foundation of brick piers. A hip-roofed single-story porch extends across two sides, with gabled sections on each side. The oldest portion of the house is the ell, which was built about 1880, with the main block added in 1903. The 1903 Colonial Revival house was built for William P. Fletcher, a leading businessman in the locally important rice growing and processing industry.
The Matthews-Dillon House is a historic house at 701 Skyline Drive in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building, with a steeply pitched gable roof in a saltbox profile. The roof is continued over a small front porch, with flush-set chimneys to its left and a gabled projection to its right. The house was built in 1928 by the Justin Matthews Company, to a design by company architect Frank Carmean. The house is locally unusual for its evocation of colonial New England architectural style, executed as a brick variant of medieval English architecture.
The S.D. Merritt House is a historic house at 45 Arkansas Highway 25 North in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, its exterior clad in a distinctive combination of fieldstone laid in herringbone patterns, and cream-colored brick trim. It was designed by Silas Owens, Sr., a prominent regional African-American mason, and built c. 1950 by Owens and his son, Silas Jr. It is a basically L-shaped structure, with a covered carport at the left end, and a forward-projecting section on the right.
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.
