The Commercial Hotel, also known as the River Front Hotel, is a historic former hotel building at 123 North 1st Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The three story hotel is constructed of wood with a mansard roof, third-floor dormers, and wrought iron cresting, which are all characteristic of the Second Empire style. The hotel was built in 1898-99, when Fort Smith was a frontier town at the edge of Indian Territory. Following Oklahoma statehood in 1907, the hotel declined in significance and eventually closed. The building now hosts "Miss Laura's Social Club", and serves as Fort Smith's visitors center.
The Rusher Hotel, also known as the Great Southern Hotel, is a historic hotel building at 127 West Cedar Street in Brinkley, Arkansas. It was built in 1915 to serve the Brinkley Union Station. It is a three-story brick building, whose main entrance originally faced the railroad, but was reoriented to the street facade after the railroad declined in importance.
The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2009. The district covers the historic core of the University of Arkansas campus, including 25 buildings.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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 Conway Hotel is a historic hotel building at 108 Courthouse Square in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Built in 1913, it was the first brick hotel building in the rural town; it was built in response to an influx of diamond miners into the area after the Crater of Diamonds was discovered. It is a two-story structure with modest Craftsman styling.
The Crown Hotel, formerly the Lakeside Hotel is a historic hotel building at 119 West University Street in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building in an L shape, with a hip roof topped by a low cupola. It is distinguished by the brickwork at the roofline, and by the delicately spindled two-story porch that wraps around two sides of the building. Built in 1881, just one year after the city's founding, it is one of the city's oldest commercial buildings, and may have been its first brick hotel.
The Inn at Mountain View, formerly the Dew Drop Inn, is a historic hotel property at 307 West Washington Street in Mountain View, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, roughly in a T shape, with a cross gable roof configuration. A single-story porch wraps around one portion of the T, supported by square posts mounted on dressed stone pedestals. Built c. 1920, it is one of two hotel buildings to survive from that period in the city.
The Henley Hotel is a historic hotel building at 112 United States Highway 65 North in downtown St. Joe, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. It has a wraparound porch supported by Doric columns, and the building corners are adorned with pilasters. It is the largest building in the small community, built c. 1913 to provide service to travelers on the railroad, which was built to the community in 1903. It served as a hotel until closing in the 1930s due to the Great Depression, and remained a private home of the Henleys until the 1970s.
The Bristow Hotel is a historic commercial building in 112 South 2nd Street in Ozark, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone structure, finished in rusticated ashlar limestone. It was built in 1909 for George Bristow, a local resident, and has retained many of its internal finishes despite conversion to professional offices. The building is one of the few built in Ozark out of local limestone.
The Ozark Courthouse Square Historic District encompasses the historic late 19th-century center of Ozark, Arkansas. It includes an area two blocks by two blocks in area, bounded on the west by 4th Street, the north by West Commercial Street, the east by 2nd Street, and the south by West Main Street. Most of the buildings in the district were built between about 1890 and 1930, a period of significant growth occasioned by the arrival of the railroad, and are built either out of brick or locally quarried stone. Prominent buildings include the Franklin County Courthouse and the Bristow Hotel.
The Mountainaire Hotel Historic District encompasses a pair of former hotel buildings at 1100 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. They are virtually identical four story masonry structures, clad in a buff brick veneer, with stepped facades in an Art Moderne style. They were built about 1947, as part of a planned five-building complex, and are one a small number of Art Moderne buildings in the city. They were built by A.I. Albinson, originally from Minnesota, and operated as a hotel for about twenty years. They were thereafter converted to an elderly care facility. At the time they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, the buildings stood vacant.
The Woodmen of Union Building is a historic commercial building at 501 Malvern Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a four-story structure, built mainly out of brick and ceramic blocks, although its southeastern section has upper levels with wood framing and finishing. Its main facade has an elaborate projecting entrance portico, with the entrance set in an elliptical-arch opening supported by fluted pilasters. The interior retains significant original features, including a bank vault, marble wainscoting, and a 2,500 seat auditorium. It was built in 1923-24 for the Supreme Lodge of the Woodmen of Union, an African-American social organization, which operated it as a multifunction bathhouse, hotel, hospital, bank, and performance venue. It was purchased in 1950 by the National Baptist Association.
The Capital Hotel is a historic hotel at 111 West Markham Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a four-story brick building with an elaborately decorated Victorian front facade. Its ground level window bays are articulated by Corinthian pilasters, and the tall second and third floor windows are set in round-arch openings with Ionic pilasters between. The fourth floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings with smaller Corinthian pilasters. The hotel was, when it opened in 1877, the grandest in the city, and the building is still a local landmark.
The Capitol–Main Historic District encompasses a well-preserved area of early 19th-century commercial architecture in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The district includes 2-1/2 blocks of Capitol Street, extending east from Center Street, one block of Main Street south of Capitol, and one block of 6th Street west of Main. The buildings in this area were mostly built before World War II, and are of a more modest scale than modern sections of the downtown. Notable buildings include the LaFayette Hotel and the Pfeifer Brothers Department Store.
The Hotel Pines is a historic commercial building at the northwest corner of West 5th and Main Streets in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a large six-story U-shaped masonry structure, with a two-story section filling the center of the U. The center section has a portico projecting over the sidewalk, with Classical Revival detailing and paired columns for support. Built in 1913 and in operation as a hotel until 1970, it was Pine Bluff's grandest hotel.
The Wesley Marsh House is a historic house in rural northern White County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of Letona, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northwest of the junction of Arkansas Highways 16 and 305. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof that descends on one side to a shed-roofed porch. The exterior is clad in board-and-batten siding, and the foundation consists of stone piers. Built about 1900, it is one of the county's few surviving houses from the period.
The Martindale Corn Crib is a historic farm outbuilding in rural northern White County, Arkansas. It is located west of Letona, in a field near a barn on the south side of Arkansas Highway 310. It is a small single-story wooden structure, built out of plank framing on a stone pier foundation, with a gabled metal roof on top. Built in 1924, it is a rare surviving example of post-and-nailer construction, in which the wall studs are stabilized by a horizontal member halfway up their length.
