The Arkansas Post was the first European settlement in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and present-day Arkansas. Henri de Tonti established it in 1686 as a French trading post on the lower Arkansas River, where the French and Spanish traded with the Quapaw people for years.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Arkansas that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 2,600 listings in the state, including at least 8 listings in each of Arkansas's 75 counties.
Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine are a pair of man-made lakes located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, serving as a tourist attraction for the area. Both Lakes were developed by Arkansas Power & Light.
Bell House or Bellhouse may refer to:
U.S. Route 62 is a U.S. highway running from El Paso, Texas northeast to Niagara Falls, New York. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, the route runs 329.9 miles from the Oklahoma border near Summers east to the Missouri border in St. Francis, serving the northern portion of the state. The route passes through several cities and towns, including Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Harrison, Mountain Home, Pocahontas, and also Piggott. US 62 runs concurrent with several highways in Arkansas including Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 71 between Fayetteville and Bentonville, U.S. Route 412 through much of the state, U.S. Route 65 in the Harrison area, and with U.S. Route 63 and U.S. Route 67 in northeast Arkansas.
Couchwood is the summer estate of Harvey C. Couch, an industrialist and founder of Arkansas Light and Power in the early 20th century. The estate, located at 601 Couchwood Road, is southeast of Hot Springs, Arkansas, straddling the border of Garland and Hot Spring counties on the north shore of Lake Catherine.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.
Twelve special routes of U.S. Route 63 currently exist. Arkansas and Missouri each contain five, with two in Iowa. There are also five former routings that have been removed from the system.
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 Fred Carter House is a historic house located on School Avenue, north of 4th Street, in Hardy, Arkansas.
The Fred Graham House is a historic house on United States Route 62 in Hardy, Arkansas. It is a vernacular Tudor Revival structure, 1+1⁄2 stories in height, built out of uncoursed native fieldstone finished with beaded mortar. The roof is side gabled, with two front-facing cross gables. The south-facing front facade has a stone chimney with brick trim positioned just west of center between the cross gables, and a raised porch to the west of that. Built c. 1931, it is a fine local example of vernacular Tudor Revival architecture.
The William Shaver House is a historic house on the east side of School Street, north of 4th Street, in Hardy, Arkansas. It is a single story fieldstone structure, with a side gable roof and a projecting gable-roofed porch. The porch is supported by stone columns with an elliptical arch, and a concrete base supporting a low stone wall. The main facade is three bays wide, with the porch and entrance at the center, and flanking sash windows. The house is a fine local example of a vernacular stone house, built c. 1947 for a working-class family.
The Thomas Walker House is a historic house at 201 North Spring Street in Hardy, Arkansas. Built in 1925, this 1+1⁄2-story stone structure is a particularly fine local example of Craftsman style. It is fashioned out of rough-cut local fieldstone, and has a prominent front porch supported by tapered square columns, and its low-pitch cross gable roof has exposed rafter ends. The interior retains period flooring, woodwork, and hardware. The house was built for Leonard Brophy, who only lived there a few years before selling it to Thomas Walker.
The Fred Hall House is a historic house at 2nd and West Searcy Streets in Kensett, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, finished in stone and composition shingles. It has a cross-gable roof configuration, with a gabled porch projecting from the left front. It is supported by sloping square wooden columns, and has exposed rafters. Built in 1930, it is a good local example of Craftsman architecture.
The Iron Springs Recreation Area is a roadside picnic area on Arkansas Highway 7, north of Jessieville in the Ouachita National Forest. The area has three shelters for picnicking, vault toilets, and an accessible trail for viewing the springs in the area. The facilities were largely built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, with two shelters and the nearby dam listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The King-Neimeyer-Mathis House is a historic house at 2145 Malvern Road in Hot Springs, Arkansas, opposite the Hot Springs Golf Club. It is a 1+1⁄2-story Craftsman style house, with a broad shallow-pitch gable roof. Originally built outside the city, the city's growth has brought it within the city limits, but it still stands on more than 7 acres (2.8 ha), along with a number of agricultural outbuildings. The house was built in 1917-18 by D. D. King as a summer house, apparently due in part to its proximity to the golf club.
The Lake Catherine State Park-Bridge No. 2 is a historic bridge, carrying Arkansas Highway 171 across an unnamed stream in the western part of Lake Catherine State Park in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. The bridge is a rustic stone structure, with stone abutments rising to low piers just above the roadway at its four corners. Built in 1935 by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps, it is one of a number of surviving CCC-built structures in the park.
The Rock Building is a historic building in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of Bartell Road, north of Judsonia and west of Arkansas Highway 13. It is a single-story stone structure, now lacking a roof, of uncertain original function. It was built about 1915, and originally had a gabled roof that extended over a porch. The building is unusual by virtue of its stone construction, which is rare for the period 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).
