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 Josiah Wilcox House is a historic house at 354 Riversville Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. Built in 1838, it is one of the town's finest examples of Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The Brown House is a historic house on Elm Street in Bald Knob, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, finished in brick, with a front-facing gable roof and a gable-roof porch that projects to the side. The porch is supported by brick columns set on a low stuccoed wall. The deep eaves of the roof feature knee brackets and exposed rafter ends. Dating to the mid-1920s, it is a local example of Craftsman architecture.
The Charley Passmore House is a historic house on Campus Street in Marshall, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, finished with masonry veneer, gable roof, and stone foundation. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by piers of brick and stone joined by arched spandrels. A gabled dormer projects from the roof above the porch. The house was built in 1938, and is an excellent local example of Craftsman architecture executed primarily in stone and brick.
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 John Henry Clayborn House is a historic house at 1800 Marshall Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, built out of wood framing reinforced with concrete, with its exterior finished in brick. Its front facade is symmetrical, with the center entrance flanked by banks of three windows, topped by a shed roof that continues to the side, where it forms a gable. Built in 1932, the house is noted for its association with Bisoph Johh Henry Clayborn, a leading advocate of education, spiritual development, and civil rights of African Americans in Arkansas.
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 Nichol House is a historic house at 205 Park Place in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, its exterior finished in a combination of brick veneer and stucco. A single-story shed-roofed porch extends across the front, supported by brick piers, with a second-story enclosed porch above the right side. Gable ends feature large Craftsman brackets and exposed rafter ends. The house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and was built in 1916 for a local banker.
The Smith House is a historic house at 607 West Arch Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. Built in 1920, it is a rare local example of a prefabricated mail order house, produced by the Sears, Roebuck company as model #264P202. It is a two-story frame structure, with a side gable roof and novelty siding. The roof has extended eaves with exposed rafters and large brackets in the gable ends, and there is a projecting gable section in the center of the front facade. A porch wraps around to the left of this section, its shed roof supported by brick piers.
The Earl and Oza Crownover-Brown House is a historic house at 133 South Broadway in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of sandstone with cream-colored brick trim. It has a side gable roof, with front cross gable and a central entrance topped by a small gable, with a chimney to the door's left. The house was built 1943 by Silas Owen, Sr., a local master mason, and is one of the finest examples of his work.
The Richard and Mettle Ealy House is a historic house at 280 Solomon Grove Road in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of sandstone with cream-colored brick trim. It has a cross-gable roof configuration, and a recessed porch with an arcade of rounded arches. It was built in 1942, replacing a wood frame home destroyed by fire. It was built by Silas Owens, Sr., a local master mason, for his first cousin and wife.
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 Greeson-Cone House is a historic house at 928 Center Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure with a brick exterior. It has a side gable roof, whose front extends across a porch supported by brick piers near the corners and a square wooden post near the center. The roof has exposed rafter ends, and a gabled dormer in the Craftsman style. Built in 1920-21, it is a fine local example of Craftsman architecture.
The Charlie Hall House is a historic house at 221 Old United States Route 65 in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of fieldstone with concrete and cream-colored brick trim. Its roofline has an irregular assortment of gables, with a front-facing gable featuring a chimney at its center. Built about 1938, it is the first known area house completed by Silas Owen, Sr., a local master mason. The coursing and layout of its stonework are one of Owens' highest quality works.
The E.E. Hooten House is a historic house at 400 Arkansas Highway 25 in Guy, Arkansas. It is a single story rectangular wood frame structure, its exterior finished in veneered stone and cream-colored brick. A gabled porch projects from the front, sheltering the main entrance, and featuring stone supports rising to rounded arch openings. The house was probably built in the 1930s, but is notable for the applied stone veneer, which is the work of Silas Owen, Sr., a prominent local mason known for his distinctive styles of stone and brickwork.
The Silas Owens Sr. House is a historic house at 157 Solomon Grove Road in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of fieldstone with cream-colored brick and concrete trim elements. It has a gable roof with exposed rafter ends, and its front has an arcade of three segmented-arch openings. The house was built about 1948 by Silas Owens, Sr., a prominent regional master mason, as his family home. While the work is typical of his high quality, its use of cream-colored brick is unusually restrained.
The Tyler–Southerland House is a historic house at 36 Southerland Road in Conway, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and stone veneer exterior. Trim consists of cream-colored brick; both it and the veneer pattern are hallmarks of the work of Silas Owens Sr., a regionally prominent African-American mason. The house was built about 1948, and is a comparatively high style example of Owens's work. It has Tudor Revival styling, including a small gable over the front entry, and a large gable over a band of windows. Angled wing walls, an unusual feature not found in most of Owens's houses, flank the main entrance.
The Washburn House is a historic house at 40 Battles Loop in Guy, Arkansas. It is a single story Ranch style house with a gabled roof. It has wood frame construction, but is finished in sandstone veneer with cream-colored brick trim, hallmarks of the construction style of a noted regional African-American mason, Silas Owens Sr., who built this house in 1953. It features quoined brick surrounds for the doors and windows and a front porch whose roof is an extension of the main roof, with wrought iron posts.
The Melvin Chrisco House is a historic house at 237 Alvin Brown Road in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and an exterior of stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A multi-arched gabled-roofed porch shelters the front entrance. The house was built in 1947, its exterior finished by the regionally prominent African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr. It exhibits hallmarks of Owens's work, including herringbone patterning in the stone work, arched porch openings, and the use of cream brick in quoined patterns on corners and openings.
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.
