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.
Remmel Apartments and Remmel Flats are four architecturally distinguished multiunit residential buildings in Little Rock, Arkansas. Located at 1700-1710 South Spring Street and 409-411 West 17th Street, they were all designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson for H.L. Remmel as rental properties. The three Remmel Apartments were built in 1917 in the Craftsman style, while Remmel Flats is a Colonial Revival structure built in 1906. All four buildings are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and are contributing elements of the Governor's Mansion Historic District.
The Bush House is a historic house at 1516 Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front gable roof and clapboard siding. A single-story gabled porch, its gable nearly matching that of the main roof, projects from the front, supported by fieldstone columns. The gable ends feature half-timbering effect typical of the Craftsman/Bungalow style. The house was designed by Thompson & Harding and built in 1919.
The New Home School and Church is a historic community building on McKisic Creek Road south of Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, which lacks ornamentation. Its main facade has a double-door entrance, and the side facades have three bays of windows. Built c. 1900, it is a well-preserved example of a multifunction vernacular community building, which was used as a school during the week and as a church on Sundays. The school function was discontinued after schools in the area were consolidated.
The Thane House is a historic residence at Levy and First Streets in Arkansas City, Arkansas, overlooking the Mississippi River. The 1 1⁄2-story Craftsman style house was built for Henry Thane in 1909 to a design by Charles L. Thompson. It has a tile roof, with steeply pitched gable dormer on the front facade. The center entry is recessed, with a projecting bay to one side which is capped by a three-sided roof. The eaves have exposed rafter ends, and the front gable has false half-timbering.
The Flavius Holt House is a historic house on Kohler Street in Nashville, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and a single chimney at the western end. A shed roof addition extends to the rear of the house. The main entrance is sheltered by an ornately decorated gable-front portico, supported by paired box columns in front, and pilasters at the rear. Within the gable are paired brackets and a secondary pediment. There are free-form scrolled brackets adorning the front columns. The house is known to have been standing when Flavius Holt, a local innkeeper, purchased the property in 1877, and the property is known to be the site of one of the first homes erected in Nashville in 1836. Holt operated the property as a tavern and stagecoach rest stop until the arrival of the railroad in 1884 caused a decline in business. This house is one of the few pre-railroad buildings to survive in Nashville.
The Hillyard Cabin is a historic log cabin on Old Burr Road, northeast of Warm Springs, Arkansas. It is a single-pen log structure, with a gable roof and a fieldstone chimney. The pen is 14 feet (4.3 m) square, fashioned out of sawn logs laid without chinking. The east-facing front facade has a shed-roof porch extending across its width, with a doorway into the cabin on the right and a window on the left. The cabin was built in 1932-33 by a local resident for his brother, an Illinois resident, to use as a vacation site. The cabin is architecturally significant for its distinctive sawn-log construction style, in 1994, at which time it was undergoing restoration and rehabilitation.
The Bella Vista Water Tank is a historic water tower at the junction of Cedar Crest and Cunningham Drives in Bella Vista, Arkansas. This native stone tank was built in 1927 by the Linebarger Brothers, under the supervision of Wallard Braithwaite, to store water for summer cottages on the west side of Lake Bella Vista and later the Sunset Hotel. It is significant as the only known water tank of its type in Benton County, Arkansas, and for its association with the early development of Bella Vista.
The Blackwell-Paisley Cabin is a historic summer cabin on Suits-Us Drive in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, facing west, with a front gable roof. A carport is attached to the south facade of the main cabin, and projects forward of it, with its own gable roof. The rear of the carport is screened to provide a sitting area. Bedrooms on two levels are sheltered only by screens on three sides. The cabin was built in 1924 by Roy Cunningham, who built many summer retreat cabins in Bella Vista. This cabin is one of the few surviving and relatively unaltered cabins in the area from the period.
The Bogan Cabin is a historic summer cabin on a private spur road off Cedar Crest Drive, near Bella Vista, Arkansas. Built c. 1925, it is one of a small number of surviving cabins in this hill resort area. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof that extends over a narrow open porch with a balustrade fashioned out of tree branches. A gabled wing extending to the east includes a covered carport and a porch, and a similar wing to the west shelters a deck. The cabin is surrounded on three sides by screened areas. The cabin represents a particularly creative use of outside spaces of the surviving cabins in the area.
The Braithwaite House is a historic house at Bella Vista Drive and Braithwaite Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. Built c. 1855, this single-story brick house may be the oldest house in Benton County, and is the only one of its type in the city. Its former is similar to a saltbox with a side gable roof that has a short front slope and an extended rear slope. An open porch with a shed roof extends across the front. The house was by James Haney, an Irish brick mason, for the Braithwaites, who were major local landowners.
The Deaton Cabin is a historic summer cabin on Suits Us Road in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a single-story structure, fashioned out of rustically-cut wood framing. It is a long rectangle in shape, oriented north-south and parallel to Suits Us Road. Its gable roof extends over a former carport that has been screened and converted into a porch area. Its entrance is sheltered by a gabled portico, and there is a rough fieldstone chimney just to its left. It is little-altered since its c. 1924 construction, and is one of a handful of surviving summer cabins from that period in Bella Vista.
The Lamberton Cabin is a historic summer cabin at 8 North Mountain in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a roughly square single-story wood frame structure with a low-pitch gable roof. The roof is extended to the west by a shed-roofed sleeping porch, and there is an open deck to the east. The roof extends significantly beyond the walls, much of which consist of screened sections. The interior of the cabin, partitioned into living spaces, is further sheltered from the elements by the use of canvas shades. Built c. 1920, this is one a handful of period cabins to survive in Bella Vista, and one of its least-altered.
The Linebarger House is a historic house at 606 West Central Avenue in Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.A. This two-story Craftsman-style house was built in 1920 by C. A. Linebarger, one of the principal developers of the Bella Vista resort area north of Bentonville. As one of the first Craftsman houses built, it played a significant role in popularizing the style in the region, with a deep porch whose roof is supported by stone porch piers, wide eaves with decorative supporting brackets, and exposed rafter tails.
The Pharr Cabin is a historic summer cabin at 2 North Mountain in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a wood frame structure with a gable roof, presenting a single story to the front, and two to the rear on its steeply sloping lot. A porch extends across the front (south-facing) facade, with a lower-pitch gable roof. A large fieldstone chimney rises through both of these roofs. An open deck runs along the eastern facade. The sleeping areas on the lower level are enclosed only by screening. The cabin was built c. 1920, and is one of a small number of little-altered cabins built in that period in Bella Vista.
The Princedom Cabin is a historic cabin on the south side of Lookout Drive in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a wood frame structure with one story facing the road, and two at the back of its steeply sloping lot. It is finished in board-and-batten siding, and has a low pitch roof, with a fieldstone chimney prominently placed at the front facade. Built c. 1923, this typical cabin of the period has been modified by enclosing its car port as a sleeping porch and building an open deck between it and the main cabin. It is one of a small number of surviving little-altered 1920s cabins built in the area.
The Sutherlin Cabin is a historic summer cabin at 4 North Mountain in Bella Vista, Arkansas. Built c. 1924, it is the simplest of the handful of summer cabins in Bella Vista to survive from that period. It presents a single story at the front, but sits on a steeply sloping lot that provides a full second story at the rear. Unlike its contemporaries, it lacks projecting deck and porch sections, having only a narrow porch across its front, underneath the main hip roof. The cabin has bands of sash windows on all sides, interrupted only on the east side by the fieldstone chimney. The two levels of the cabin are not connected by an interior staircase.
The Chandler House is a historic house in rural northern White County, Arkansas. It is located just north of the junction of Stanley and Honeysuckle Roads, northwest of Bald Knob. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with weatherboard siding and a gable roof. A hip-roofed porch extends around its front to the side, supported by square posts, and a shed-roof addition extends to the rear. The front is symmetrically arranged, three bays wide, with sash windows on either side of the entrance, and a third window in the gable above. The house was built about 1885, and is probably one of the first gable-entry houses to be built in White County, and one of a very few to survive from the 19th century.
The Matthews-MacFayden House is a historic house at 206 Dooley Road in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with gable-on-hip roof, and a projecting single-story gable-roofed section on the right side of the front. Decoratively corbelled brick chimneys rise at the center of the main roof, and a projecting wood-framed oriel window adds a distinctive touch to the front. The house was built in 1930 by developer Justin Matthews as part of his Edgemont development, and was designed by his company architect, Frank Carmean. It is a picturesque example of English Revival architecture.
