The Octagon House is a historic octagon house at 21 Spring Street in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It is considered the best octagon house of those that survive in Connecticut. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places to avert its demolition in urban renewal.
The Merritt House is a historic house at 139 North Broadview in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, finished with a masonry veneer, with an irregular plan featuring a variety of roof gables. The exterior is finished in sandstone with cream-colored brick trim. The main entrance is set under a deep front porch, whose front has a broad flat-topped arch, with a gable above that has a louver framed in brick. The house was built by Silas Owen, Sr., a local master mason, in 1948 for Billy Merritt. It was built using in part stone from a house built by Owen for Merritt's father, which had recently been torn down.
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 Sellers House is a historic house at 89 Acklin Gap in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas, northeast of Conway. It is a single-story masonry structure, with a gabled roof, fieldstone exterior, and cream-colored brick trim. It has a projecting front porch with arched openings, and its roof has Craftsman-style exposed rafter ends. The house was built about 1940 by Silas Owens, Sr., a noted regional master mason. This house exhibits his hallmarks, which include herringbone patterns in the stonework, cream-colored brick trim, and arched openings.
The Eagle House is a historic house at 217 Ash Street in Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a large two story Bungalow/Craftsman style house, with a cross-gable roof configuration, and an exterior of yellow brick and half-timbered stucco. A long single-story porch extends across the front, supported by brick piers and large curved brackets. The house was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1915.
The Beech Street Brick Street is an historic section of the Beech Street roadway in Texarkana, Arkansas. It consists of a section of road, between 14th and 24th Streets, which was paved in brick c. 1904. It is a residential road located northeast of Texarkana's downtown, and is about 3,425 feet (1,044 m) long and 23 feet (7.0 m) wide. The bricks, which measure 4 by 8.5 inches, are laid in a running bond pattern. The road section is a rare surviving example of the use of brick as a paving material, as most such roads have since been paved over with asphalt.
The Gemmill-Faust House is a historic house at 321 St. Andrew's Terrace in West Helena, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a brick-face exterior, built c. 1920. The house is an excellent local example of the Prairie School of design, with its broad spreading eaves, hip roof with hipped dormer, light-colored brick, and ribbon windows throughout. A period garage stands west of (behind) the main house.
Rabbits Foot Lodge is a historic house at 3600 Silent Grove Road in Springdale, Arkansas. Sited on 100 acres (40 ha) northwest of downtown Springdale, it is a large two-story log structure, fashioned from materials gathered on the property in 1908. A distinctive combination of Ozark and Adirondack styling, it architecturally resembles an American Foursquare house, with a distinctive roofline that includes pyramidal elements with flared eaves. The exterior walls, as well as major interior walls, are fashioned from logs that were squared to about 6 by 8 inches. Exterior walls were joined with large spikes, while the interior walls were joined to the exterior ones with mortise and tenon joints. When the house was built it received immediate notice in architectural and popular circles. It was owned for a time by Arkansas politician J. William Fulbright.
The Villa Rosa is a historic house at 617 West Lafayette in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a brick exterior and a tile hip roof. The brick is variegated light colors, reflective of the Renaissance Revival style also evident in the arches surmounting the first-floor windows and doorway. The entrance is sheltered by a portico with classical columns and a small balcony on top. The house was built in 1925 by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, a prominent regional activist for women's rights and the Arkansas poet laureate in 1953.
The Harris House is a historic house in rural southeastern Pulaski County, Arkansas. Built in 1856, it is one of the oldest houses in central Arkansas. It is a modest 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, built out of local hand-hewn cypress and handmade bricks. It has an open porch extending across a five-bay front facade, with gable dormers projecting from the roof above. The entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom. The wood used in construction is virgin cypress, some of it planed to a width of 16 inches (41 cm). The house was built on land acquired by Robert Harris in 1853, part of which was granted by President John Quincy Adams. The land was still in the hands of Harris' descendants in 1976, when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Hunt House is a historic house at 707 West Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame house, its exterior finished in brick, stucco, stone, and other materials. It is roughly T-shaped, with intersecting gable-roofed sections. The front-facing gable has the entry porch projecting from its left front, and a chimney to its right. Both are formed out of brick with randomly placed stone at the lower levels, and stuccoed brick at the upper levels. Built about 1935, it is one of Searcy's finer examples of English 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 Greeson-Cone House is a historic house at 928 Center Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a 1 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with a brick exterior. It has a side-gable roof, whose front extends across a porch supported by brick piers near the corners and a square wooden post near the center. The roof has exposed rafter ends, and a gabled dormer in the Craftsman style. Built in 1920–21, it is a fine local example of Craftsman architecture.
The Farris and Evelyn Langley House is a historic house at 12 Langley Lane in Republican, Arkansas. It is a rectangular frame house, its exterior finished in stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A gabled roof covers the house, extending over a recessed entry porch, its corner supported by a brick post. The ranch-style house was built in 1956 by Silas Owens, Sr., a mason noted regionally for his distinctive style. Hallmarks of his style are evident in this house, including the cream brick, and angled placement of the stones on the building's larger surfaces.
The Fred and Lucy Alexander Schaer House is a historic house at 13219 United States Route 70, a short way east of Galloway, Arkansas. It is a two-story frame structure, with a gabled tile roof and brick veneer exterior. Built about 1920, it is a fine example of Mission/Spanish Revival architecture, with the tile roof, brick exterior, and decorative ironwork elements all hallmarks of the style. The house's design has been attributed to both John Parks Almand or Charles L. Thompson, who did work for other members of the Schaer family.
The Quattlebaum–Pelletier House is a historic house at 43 Ozark Street in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in a combination of fieldstone veneer and cream-colored brick. Built in 1942, it has many of the hallmarks of the work of Silas Owens Sr., a regionally prominent African-American mason, including an arcaded recessed porch, and the types of exterior materials used. Owens departed from his usually herringbone pattern for laying the stone on the walls, instead using longer and thinner sandstone in a geometric pattern.
The Earl and Mildred Ward House is a historic house at 1157 Mitchell Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, with a stone veneer exterior, cream-colored brick trim, and a gabled roof. A gabled porch projects from the center of the modest house, with an arched opening lined with bricks. The house was built in 1949 by African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr., and is the only house he is known to have done in granite instead of his preferred sandstone.
The Melvin Chrisco House is a historic house at 237 Alvin Brown Road in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and an exterior of stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A multi-arched gabled-roofed porch shelters the front entrance. The house was built in 1947, its exterior finished by the regionally prominent African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr. It exhibits hallmarks of Owens's work, including herringbone patterning in the stone work, arched porch openings, and the use of cream brick in quoined patterns on corners and openings.
The Carl and Esther Lee House is a historic house at 17493 United States Route 65 West in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a stone veneer exterior and cream-colored brick trim. The front facade has projecting gable sections, with a porch sheltered by one such section with curved-arch openings. The larger gables have sunburst brick designs near their peaks. The house was built about 1948; the exterior stonework was done by Silas Owens, Sr., a regionally prominent stonemason. The house exhibits many of Owens's hallmarks, including the use of cream-colored brick, herringbone-patterned stonework, and arched openings.
The Toll House is a residence in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It was built by 1878 near the toll gates of a private road linking mines between the towns of Silver Plume, Colorado and Georgetown, Colorado. The home belonged to Julius G. Pohle, an officer of the Lebanon Mining Company; the Lebanon Mine was one of the earliest hard rock silver mines in Colorado, operating from around 1870 until the 1940s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
