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.
The Sellers House is a historic house at 89 Acklin Gap in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas, northeast of Conway. It is a single-story masonry structure, with a gabled roof, fieldstone exterior, and cream-colored brick trim. It has a projecting front porch with arched openings, and its roof has Craftsman-style exposed rafter ends. The house was built about 1940 by Silas Owens, Sr., a noted regional master mason. This house exhibits his hallmarks, which include herringbone patterns in the stonework, cream-colored brick trim, and arched openings.
The White House is a historic house at 1015 Perry Street in Helena, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1910 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. The Colonial Revival building has a pyramidal roof with projecting gable sections. A single-story porch wraps around two sides of the house, supported by grouped Tuscan columns. The front entry is framed by sidelight windows and pilasters. It is the only surviving Thompson design in Helena.
The First Presbyterian Church–Berry House is a historic building at 203 Pecan Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a gabled roof and brick foundation. A cross-gabled porch projects from the front, supported by square posts. It was built in 1872 as a church, and originally had a bell tower and vernacular style. About 1912, it was converted to a private residence, at which time the tower was removed, and the Craftsman-style porch was added.
The Craig-Bryan House is a historic house at 307 West Central Avenue in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is an eclectic two-story brick house, with several gabled wings, and projecting bay window sections. Its front-facing gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and there is a prominent three-story tower at the center with a shallow-pitch hip roof. Its iron balconies were salvaged from the old Benton County Courthouse when it was demolished. The house was built in 1875 by James Toliver Craig, and owned by members of the Bryan family for seven decades.
The Maxwell-Hinman House is a historic house at 902 NW Second Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is an elaborate L-shaped Italianate brick house, supposedly built in 1881 by a returning Civil War veteran. It has decorative brickwork brackets, cornice, corner quoining, and window hoods. The only significant woodwork on the exterior are the porch columns which have ornate scrollwork capitals. The high quality work and unusual decorative elements suggest the house was built by workmen from outside the area.
The Green Booth House is a historic house at South Pecan Street and West Center Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a broad gabled roof, and a wraparound front porch that extends to a carport on the left. A gabled dormer projects from the center of the front roof slope, and the porch is supported by tapered columns set on brick piers. Built c. 1925, the house is a fine example of the area's second phase of Craftsman architecture.
The James Peter Faucette House is a historic house at 316 West Fourth Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, roughly square in shape, with a projecting gabled section at the left of its front (southern) facade. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by grouped square fluted columns on brick piers, with a balustrade across the top. The house was built c. 1912 by Mayor James P. Faucette, and is one of the city's finer examples of Colonial Revival architecture.
The Bell House is a historic house at 302 West Woodruff Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with an irregular roofline. A porch, headed by a side gable entrance projects to the right, continuing across the front to meet a small front-gable projecting in front of a higher front-facing gable roof. The porch is supported by high brick piers topped by short wooden posts. Built in 1915, it is a fine local example of Craftsman architecture.
The Hunt House is a historic house at 707 West Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame house, its exterior finished in brick, stucco, stone, and other materials. It is roughly T-shaped, with intersecting gable-roofed sections. The front-facing gable has the entry porch projecting from its left front, and a chimney to its right. Both are formed out of brick with randomly placed stone at the lower levels, and stuccoed brick at the upper levels. Built about 1935, it is one of Searcy's finer examples of English Revival architecture.
The Fox House is a historic house at 1303 South Olive Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story frame structure, its exterior finished in a variety of materials, with a tiled hip roof. The walls have a typical Craftsman-style variety of materials, including brick, stone, and stuccoed half-timbering. A gable-roofed entrance portico projects from the front, supported by brick piers and featuring extended eaves and large brackets. The house was designed by Theodore Sanders and built c. 1910.
The Katzenstein House is a historic house at 902 West 5th Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, capped by a clipped-gable tile roof. An enclosed front porch projects from the left side of the front. The main gable features a band of five casement windows, and both the main gable and the porch gable feature half-timbered stucco finish. The house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1913. It is an unusual blending of Craftsman styling applied to an largely American Foursquare plan.
The Yauch-Ragar House is a historic house at 625 State Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a hip roof. A gable projects from the front, with a large segmented-arch window at the center, and a smaller similar window in the gable. To the projecting section's left, a porch is supported by Tuscan columns. Built in 1907, the house is a rare example of brick construction from that period. It was built by William Yauch, who with his brother owned a local brickworks.
The Joiner House is a historic house at 708 Market Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story brick structure, with asymmetrical massing characteristic of the English Revival. A side gable roof has a large front-projecting gable with half-timbered stucco exterior, and the centered entrance is sheltered by a projecting brick gabled portico. Built in 1928, it is the oldest of Searcy's English Revival houses, and among its most picturesque.
The A.J. Smith House was a historic house on Arkansas Highway 385 in Griffithville, Arkansas. It was a two-story wood frame structure, with a T-shaped gable-roofed structure, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers. A hip-roofed porch extended across the front of the projecting T section and around the side. The house was built about 1887, and was one of White County's few surviving 19th-century houses.
The Arthur W. Woodson House is a historic house at 1005 West Arch Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building, with a broad gabled roof across its main section. A cross-gabled porte-cochere extends to the right, supported by brick piers, and a hip-roofed porch extends across the front, with a projecting gabled section in front of the entrance, making for a picturesque and irregular roof line. The house was built in 1923, and is one of the city's finer examples of Craftsman architecture.
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.
The D.O. Harton House is a historic house at 607 Davis Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. A hip-roof dormer projects from the front of the roof, and a single-story porch extends across the front, supported by wooden box columns with Classical detailing. Built in 1913, it is a well-kept example of a vernacular American Foursquare house, built by D.O. Harton, Jr., a local contractor.
The Schaer House is a historic house at 1862 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is an asymmetrical two story brick house in the Tudor Revival style, designed by Thompson and Harding and built in 1923. Its main roof extends from side to side, with a hip at one end and a gable at the other. On the right side of the front facade, the roof descends to the first floor, with a large half-timbered cross gable section projecting. It also has an irregular window arrangement, with bands of three casement windows in the front cross gable, and on the first floor left side, with two sash windows in the center and the main entrance on the right.
The Carl and Esther Lee House is a historic house at 17493 United States Route 65 West in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a stone veneer exterior and cream-colored brick trim. The front facade has projecting gable sections, with a porch sheltered by one such section with curved-arch openings. The larger gables have sunburst brick designs near their peaks. The house was built about 1948; the exterior stonework was done by Silas Owens, Sr., a regionally prominent stonemason. The house exhibits many of Owens's hallmarks, including the use of cream-colored brick, herringbone-patterned stonework, and arched openings.
