The Thomas R. McGuire House, located at 114 Rice Street in the Capitol View Historic District of Little Rock, Arkansas, is a unique interpretation of the Colonial Revival style of architecture. Built by Thomas R. McGuire, a master machinist with the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, it is the finest example of the architectural style in the turn-of-the-century neighborhood. It is rendered from hand-crafted or locally manufactured materials and serves as a triumph in concrete block construction. Significant for both its architecture and engineering, the property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1991.
The Lightle House, a historic house at 605 Race Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas contains two stories, a full basement, and a full attic. Its brick facade attaches to a reinforced concrete foundation which supports a tile hip roof with 1924 Ludovici tiles. Designed by Charles L. Thompson, it has plans dated December 1923, so construction started in 1924 and continued until the Edward Lightle family moved into the house in April 1925, a date documented on the underside of a garden urn presently located under a wrought iron gazebo in the back yard.
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 Davis House is a historic house at 212 Fulton Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame American Foursquare structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of rusticated concrete blocks. The roof has flared eaves with exposed rafter ends, and a front-facing dormer with a Flemish-style gable. The porch extends across the front and curves around to the side, supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built about 1905 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Wilson-Martin House is a historic house at 511 Bond Street in Warren, Arkansas. The two story brick house was built in 1916, and is an excellent local example of Georgian Revival styling, despite later alterations. The house was built by John Rufus Wilson, a lawyer, teacher, and state legislator, and was sold by the Wilsons to Bryan Martin, a local merchant, in 1930. The house has elegant Georgian features, including a hip roof, brick corner quoins, and a projecting front entry porch with triangular pediment. The entrance is flanked on both sides by three casement Prairie-style windows. The second floor of the front has a pair of small windows above the entry porch, and flanking sash windows on either side.
The Capt. John T. Burkett House is a historic house in rural Ouachita County, Arkansas. It is located at 607 Ouachita County Road 65, near the community of Frenchport. The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1899 by John Burkett, a ship's captain and part-owner of a local lumber mill. He later served as the chief warden at Cummins Prison, and then as a regional agent of the Internal Revenue Service. The house is a fine example of Folk Victorian style. Its front facade has a porch running across its whole width, mounted on piers made of locally manufactured bricks, with its hip-roof supported by concrete columns that resemble Tuscan-style columns. The balustrade is a metal filigree work. A gable-roof balcony projects above the center of the porch.
The Hawkins House is a historic house at the northwest corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Foreman, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, built in 1912, and is one of the city's few surviving properties from its boom period in the early 20th century, dating to the arrival of the railroad. It is a vernacular Foursquare house, given an L shape by the attachment of a hip-roofed ell to its northwestern corner. Its front elevation is dominated by a two-story recessed porch, supported by concrete block columns.
The David L. King is a historic house at 2nd and Kelly Street in Hardy, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare structure with a hip roof, and is fashioned from locally manufactured concrete blocks. It has a hip-roofed porch extending across its front. The house was built in 1919 for David L. King, a prominent lawyer in Sharp County, and is distinctive as a rare example of residential concrete block construction in the community.
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 Reeves House is a historic house at 321 South Wright Street in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, wood clapboards and shingling, and a stone and concrete foundation. Its front facade is dominated by a central projecting clipped-gable section, whose gable is partially finished in diamond-cut wood shingles, and which shelters a second story porch over a broader first-story porch. Both porches have jigsawn decorative woodwork and turned posts. The house, built in 1895, is one of the finest high-style Queen Anne Victorians in the city.
The Rife House was a historic house at 1515 South Eighth Street in Rogers, Arkansas. It was a modest single-story house, built out of concrete blocks cast to resemble rusticated stone. It had a gable-on-hip roof, with a shed-roof extension to the rear, and a full-width porch across the front. The porch was supported by four fluted columns fashioned out of concrete blocks. Built c. 1920, this was a local example of a vernacular house built using a once-popular construction material.
The Bryant-Lasater House is a historic house at 770 North Main Street in Mulberry, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, set on a foundation of molded concrete blocks, with a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof, and a hip-roof porch extending across the front. A rear porch has been enclosed. Built c. 1900, the house is locally distinctive for its architecture, as a particularly large example of a pyramid-roofed house, and for its historical role as the home of a succession of locally prominent doctors, including Dr. O. J. Kirksey, who operated a maternity hospital in the house.
The Bromley-Mills-Treece House is a historic house on Main Street in Marshall, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable configuration, clapboard siding, two interior brick chimneys, and a concrete foundation. A single-story porch wraps around two sides of the house, supported by columns on stone piers, with decorative latticework between the bays. Built in 1905, the house is a good example of a well-preserved vernacular structure with minimal Colonial Revival styling.
The W.H. Moore House is a historic house at 906 Malvern Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. It has asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period, including projecting gables and window bays, a wraparound porch, and a corner turret. The porch details, however, are distinctively Colonial Revival, with heavier clustered posts supporting its roof. The house was built in the late 19th century for W.H. Moore, owner of the Valley Planing Mill, the city's only business of that type.
The Mills House is a historic house at 715 West Barraque Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a front gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its front has a porch extending across the front, which has turned posts, a spindlework balustrade and frieze, and jigsawn brackets. Built in 1902, it is a good local example of vernacular architecture with Folk Victorian details.
The Mason House was a historic house on West Main Street in Bradford, Arkansas. It was a single story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete foundation. A flat-roof porch extended across the front and around part of one side, supported by round columns. Built in 1935, it was Bradford's best example of vernacular Craftsman architecture.
The Mills House is a historic house at 200 West Searcy Street in Kensett, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with an irregular roof line, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation and porch posts. The porch wraps around part of the front and side, and has a decorative brickwork balustrade. Built in 1921, it is one of Kensett's finest examples of Craftsman architecture.
The Tom Watkins House is a historic house at Oak and Race Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with a cross-gabled tile roof and a concrete foundation. A porch extends across part of the front and beyond the left side, forming a carport. The main roof and porch roof both feature exposed rafter tails in the Craftsman style, and there are small triangular brackets in the gable ends. The house, a fine local example of Craftsman architecture, was built about 1920 to a design by Charles L. Thompson.
The Ward-Stout House is a historic house at Front and Walnut Streets in Bradford, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, stucco exterior, and a concrete foundation. The main roof has a large "doghouse" dormer with three sash windows, and projects slightly over the shed roof of the front porch, which is supported by four stuccoed piers. Both roofs have exposed rafter ends. Built about 1932, it is a good example of late Craftsman architecture in the community.
The Robert Wanslow House is a historic house at 2815 South Q Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure framed with steel, clad in concrete panels and set on a poured concrete foundation. It has a flat roof with deep overhanging eaves, and is surrounded by a two-story porch supported by steel beams. It was built in 1962 to a design by architect Robert Wanslow, for use as his family residence. The house is locally distinctive for its Mid-Century Modern styling, which contrasts with the more conventional neighboring ranch houses.
