The Dallas County Courthouse is located at the corner of Third and Oak Streets in Fordyce, Arkansas, the county seat of Dallas County. The two-story Classical Revival building was designed by Frank W. Gibb and built in 1911, three years after the county seat was moved to Fordyce from Princeton. It is the most substantial Classical Revival building in the county, and a representative early work of the architect.
The Nash House is a historic house at 601 Rock Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. A two-story gabled section projects on the right side of the main facade, and the left side has a two-story flat-roof porch, with large fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature and dentillated and modillioned eave. Designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1907, it is a fine example of a modestly scaled Colonial Revival property. Another house that Thompson designed for Walter Nash stands nearby.
The Keith House is a historic house at 2200 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof. A single-story gabled porch projects from the center of the main facade, supported by brick piers, with exposed rafter ends and large Craftsman brackets. The house was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. It is a particularly well-executed combination of Craftsman and Prairie School features.
George Richard Mann was an American architect, trained at MIT, whose designs included the Arkansas State Capitol. He was the leading architect in Arkansas from 1900 until 1930, and his designs were among the finalists in competitions for the capitols of several other states.
The Florence Crittenton Home is a historic house at 3600 West 11th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its main block is a two-story brick hip-roof structure, to which similarly styled ells have been added to the right and rear. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance sheltered by a Colonial Revival portico supported by grouped columns and topped by a painted iron railing. The house was built in 1917 to a design by the architectural firm Thompson & Harding.
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 Fordyce Home Accident Ins. Co. is a historic building at 300 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas. It was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson in Classical Revival and Romanesque styles and built in 1908. The two-story building occupies a prominent position in Fordyce's downtown area, standing out because of its corner tower, capped by a terra cotta finial.
The Fordyce House is a historic house at 746 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that has large cross-gabled gambrel dormers projecting in each direction. It has a curved wraparound porch supported by Tuscan columns. It was built in 1910 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson, and is an excellent local example of Colonial Revival architecture.
The Frauenthal House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story stuccoed structure, three bays wide, with a terra cotta hip roof. Its front entry is sheltered by a Colonial Revival portico, supported by fluted Doric columns and topped by an iron railing. The entrance has a half-glass door and is flanked by sidelight windows. It was designed in 1919 by Thompson & Harding and built for Charles Frauenthal.
The French–England House is a historic house at 1700 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large and elaborately-decorated two story American Foursquare house, with a tall hip roof with flared eaves, narrow weatherboard siding, and a high brick foundation. A single-story porch extends across much of the front, with Ionic columns and a modillioned and dentillated cornice. The house was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was built in 1900.
The Gazette Building in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas was built in 1908. It was designed by architect George R. Mann, and built by Peter Hotze. The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Originally and for many years, the building served as the headquarters of the Arkansas Gazette newspaper. After the Gazette was sold and became the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the building served as the national campaign headquarters for the 1992 presidential campaign of Governor Bill Clinton. It now houses the Elementary and Middle Schools for eStem Public Charter Schools.
Frank W. Gibb was an architect in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mann & Stern was an architectural partnership in Arkansas of Eugene John Stern (1884-1961) and George Richard Mann (1856-1939).
John Parks Almand was an American architect who practiced in Arkansas from 1912 to 1962. Among other works, he designed the Art Deco Hot Springs Medical Arts Building, which was the tallest building in Arkansas from 1930 to 1958. Several of his works, including the Medical Arts Building and Little Rock Central High School, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Fordyce Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic heart of Fordyce, Arkansas, the county seat of Dallas County. It encompasses four city blocks of North Main Street, between 1st and 4th, and includes properties on these adjacent streets. Fordyce was founded in 1882, and the oldest building in the district, the Nutt-Trussell Building at 202 North Main Street, was built c. 1884. Spurred by the logging industry and the Cotton Belt Railroad, Fordyce's downtown area had 25 buildings by 1901, and continued to grow over the next few decades, resulting in a concentration of period commercial architecture in its downtown. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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 Waters House is a historic house at 515 Oak Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. The 2+1⁄2-story Foursquare house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1907, and is one of the finest Colonial Revival houses in the city. It has a hipped roof with flared eaves, and cross gables on the sides. The main facade features a projecting bay that rises the full two stories, and is topped by a gable with dentil molding and flared eaves. A single-story porch wraps around two sides of the house.
The Rock Island Railway Depot is a historic train station building on 3rd Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. Built c. 1925 by the Rock Island Railroad, it is one of two brick railroad stations to survive from the period in Dallas County. It is a large rectangular structure with a cross-gable tile roof. The building continues to be used by the Fordyce and Princeton Railroad to manage the shipment of lumber products.
The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia 101 is a historic steam locomotive located near the Cotten Belt Railroad Depot in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas. It is the last known steam locomotive associated with the Fordyce and Princeton Railroad. It was built in 1922 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway. It was sold to the Fordyce and Princeton in 1931, and retired in 1948. Given to the city of Little Rock, it was displayed at the Little Rock Zoo for twenty years, and was moved to Fordyce in 2007.
The South Main Street Apartments Historic District encompasses a pair of identical Colonial Revival apartment houses at 2209 and 2213 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Both are two-story four-unit buildings, finished in a brick veneer and topped by a dormered hip roof. They were built in 1941, and are among the first buildings in the city to be built with funding assistance from the Federal Housing Administration. They were designed by the Little Rock firm of Bruggeman, Swaim & Allen.
