Arkadelphia is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,714. The city is the county seat of Clark County. It is situated at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Two universities, Henderson State University and Ouachita Baptist University, are located there. Arkadelphia was incorporated in 1857.
The Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal, also known as the Main Building of the U.S. Arsenal at Little Rock, or Headquarters Building of the Little Rock Barracks, is the home of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. It is also a part of the MacArthur Park Historic District, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Abbey is a historic site in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 426 South Beach Street. On April 9, 1987, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Arkadelphia Boy Scout Hut, located in Central Park in Arkadelphia, Arkansas is on the National Register of Historic Places. Since the roof and the original shutters and windows were replaced in 1953, in the Hut is precluded from being listed on the National Register under Criterion C. However, it listed under Criterion A as a "property that made a contribution to the major pattern of American history".
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.
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 Jerome Bonaparte Pillow House is a historic house at 718 Perry Street in Helena, Arkansas. Architect George Barber designed the house, and it was built by Jerome B. Pillow in 1896. The building was donated to the Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas Foundation and was restored by that body as well as several members of the community who were successful in restoring the property to its original Queen Anne beauty. The Thompson-Pillow House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and was opened after restoration in 1997.
The Clark County Library is located at 609 Caddo St. in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It is located in a Classical Revival single-story brick building designed by Charles L. Thompson, a noted Little Rock architect, and built in 1903. It is one of the oldest institutional library buildings in Arkansas. It was built by the local Women's Library Association, and transferred to county control in 1974.
The Domestic Science Building is a historic school building at 11th and Haddock in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It was on the old campus of Arkadelphia High School, used for domestic science courses until the 1980s. It is now unused, but remains the property of the Arkadelphia School District.
The Thompson Store is a property in Duplex, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1988. and delisted in 2009. It dates from c. 1890.
The Arkadelphia Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial core of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, the county seat of Clark County. Arkadelphia was settled in 1842, and its commercial district is located in one of the older parts of the city, near the Ouachita River. Most of the buildings were built between c. 1890 and c. 1920, and are built out of brick and masonry; the oldest building in the district is estimated to have been built in 1870.
The Ouachita River Bridge is a steel Parker through truss bridge carrying Arkansas Highway 7 and Arkansas Highway 51 across the Ouachita River at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The trusses of the bridge were manufactured in 1933 by the Luten Bridge Company, and were first used to carry Highways 7 and US 67 over the Caddo River. That bridge was disassembled in the 1950s, and the trusses were stored until used to build this bridge in 1960. The main trusses span 202 feet (62 m), while the approaches combined measure 301 feet (92 m), giving the bridge a total length of 503 feet (153 m). The deck is concrete laid on steel girders and is 24 feet (7.3 m) wide. It is one of two crossings of the Ouachita River in Clark County.
The James E. M. Barkman House is a historic house located at 406 North 10th Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
The Bozeman House is a historic house in rural Clark County, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 26, several miles west of Arkadelphia, the county seat. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame house with Greek Revival styling. The house was built c. 1847 by Michael Bozeman, one of the county's early settlers, and is one of the oldest structures standing in the county. The main block is five bays wide, with a pedimented portico above the entrance on the southern facade. A kitchen ell extends to the rear of the house from the northwestern corner, giving the house an L-shape. The roof the main facade is pierced by a pair of gabled dormers. The trim detailing includes entablatures and dentil moulding.
The Flanagin Law Office is a historic office building at 320 Clay Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The front brick portion of the building was built in 1858 for J. L. Witherspoon, a local attorney, who later became Attorney General of Arkansas and sat on the state's high court. Witherspoon took on Harris Flanagin as a partner; Flanagin served as Governor of Arkansas during the American Civil War, and used this building as a law office for many years. Flanagin's son had the wood-frame rear section added, converting the building into a residence. It has since been converted back to a law office.
The Habicht-Cohn-Crow House is a historic house at 8th and Pine in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The single-story Greek Revival house was built in 1870 for Captain Anthony Habicht. Habicht sold the house in 1875 to M. M. Cohn, the founder of the regional MM Cohn department store chain. Cohn sold it five years later to A. M. Crow, a local land agent for the railroad.
The Capt. Charles C. Henderson House is a historic house at Henderson and 10th Streets in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Built in 1906 and significantly altered in 1918–20, it is the largest and most elaborate house of that period on 10th Street. When first built, it was a 2-1/2 story hip-roofed Queen Anne style house with some Classical Revival elements. Its most prominent feature from this period is the turret with elaborate finial. In 1918-20 Henderson significantly modified the house, added the boxy two-story Craftsman-style porch. The house is now on the campus of Henderson State University.
The Peake High School is a historic school building at 1600 Caddo Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. This H-shaped single-story brick building was built in 1929 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund on land given by J. Ed Peake, a school principal for whom the school was named. The building was used as a high school for African Americans until 1960, when a new building was constructed adjacent to this one, which was converted to an elementary school. The city's public schools were integrated in 1969. The school housed the city's Head Start Program from 1984 to 2001. It is the only surviving Rosenwald school in the county.
Highway 51 is a designation for two north–south state highways in Southwest Arkansas. One route of 53.37 miles (85.89 km) begins Highway 53 near Whelen Springs and runs north to US Highway 67 in Donaldson. A second route of 7.92 miles (12.75 km) runs parallel to US 270 northwest of Malvern. Both routes are maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT).
