Morrilton is a city in Conway County, Arkansas, United States, less than 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Little Rock. The city is the county seat of Conway County. The population was 6,992 at the 2020 United States census.
Saint Anthony's Hospital is a historic hospital building at 202 East Green Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. Built in 1935 to a design by A. N. McAninch, it is an Art Deco building, finished in brick and stone. It served as the local hospital until 1970, and is now a senior living facility. It is Morrilton's best example of Art Deco architecture. It has two splayed wings, with a central projecting entry pavilion.
Highway 95 is a designation for a north–south state highway in north central Arkansas. The route runs 49.40 miles (79.50 km) runs north from US Highway 64 and Highway 113 in Morrilton north to Highway 330.
The Coca-Cola Building is a historic commercial building at 211 North Moose Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with limestone trim. It has relatively clean Colonial Revival lines, with stone string courses between floors, a stone cornice below a parapet, and stone panels carved with the stylized Coca-Cola logo. It was built in 1929 to a design by the noted Arkansas architectural firm Thompson, Sanders & Ginocchio.
Galloway Hall is a residence hall on the campus of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. It is a large Tudor Revival three story brick building, designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1913. Its central portion has a gabled roof, with end pavilions that have hip roofs with gabled dormers, and stepped parapet gables, with limestone trim. It is the oldest dormitory building on the campus. It was named to honor Bishop Charles Betts Galloway.
The First National Bank of Morrilton is a historic commercial building at Broadway and Moose Streets in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a narrow five-story masonry building, occupying a prominent location at the city's main downtown intersection. It was built in 1925 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson, and has Classical Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman features. The short Broadway Street facade features a recessed entrance with Classical features, while the upper floors are relatively unadorned red brick, with Craftsman motifs in tile around the top floor windows.
The U.S. Post Office-Stuttgart is a historic post office building at 302 South Maple Street in Stuttgart, Arkansas. Built in 1931, this single-story Colonial Revival brick and limestone structure was the first purpose-built post office building in the city. A 1966 addition sensitively matched the existing building materials. The building was used by the U.S. Postal Service until 2002, and was purchased by the city, which converted it for use as city offices.
The Farmers Bank Building is a historic commercial building at Main and Walnut Streets in Leslie, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with its entrance angled at the street corner. The main facade is three bays wide, all with round arches trimmed in limestone. Built about 1910, this Romanesque Revival building house the Farmers Bank until it failed in the 1930s, and then the local post office for a time.
The Jacob Trieber Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court House is a historic government building in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. It is a Modern International style three-story building, its exterior finished in brick with limestone and granite trim. It was designed by Edward F. Brueggeman and Elmer A. Stuck & Associates, and built between 1959 and 1961. It is one of the city's few International style buildings, and has been relatively little altered since its construction.
The Arkansas Christian College Administration Building is a former school building at 100 West Harding Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure with Colonial Revival features, built in 1919-20 for the newly founded Arkansas Christian College. The college was the second higher education facility in Morrilton, and was an important part of the city's early 20th-century educational history. The school merged with Harper College in 1924 to become Harding College, and moved to Searcy, Arkansas in 1934. The building, the only surviving element of the school's Morrilton history, is now home to the Southern Christian Home, a charity that places needy children.
The Aycock House is a historic house located at 410 West Church Street in Morrilton, Arkansas.
The Conway County Courthouse is located at the corner of Moose and Church Streets in downtown Morrilton, Arkansas, the county seat of Conway County. It is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry building, built out of red brick with trim of white concrete and white terra cotta. Dominating the main facade are five slightly-recessed bays, articulated by four two-story engaged round columns, and flanked by square pilasters. The outer bays of the facade are each flanked by brick pilasters with cast terra cotta bases and capitals. The courthouse was built in 1929 to a design by Arkansas architect Frank W. Gibb.
The Conway County Library is the public library system of Conway County, Arkansas. The main library is located at 101 West Church Street in downtown Morrilton, Arkansas, the county seat. The library is located in a Classical Revival brick building designed by Thomas Harding and funded in part by a grant from Andrew Carnegie. In 1916 the Pathfinder Club of Morrilton applied for the grant. A lot was purchased, and Morrilton Mayor J. A. Frisby, Night Rainwater, and W. M. Riddick worked with a committee to construct the new library. The construction cost was $7,500, leaving $2,500 to purchase coal and furniture for the building. The building was completed in October 1916 and still serves as the Conway County Library. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The library organization began as a private collection in 1894, and was housed in private residences and vacant commercial buildings prior to the construction of this building.
The Cox House is a historic house on Bridge Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a small but architecturally eclectic single-story wood-frame house, with a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It has a projecting gabled porch, with bargeboard on the gable rake edges, brackets on the eaves, low-pitch gabled cornices over the front windows, and a broad two-leaf entrance with sidelight windows. It was built in 1875 by Hance Wesley Burrow, a farmer and veteran of the American Civil War.
The Earl Building is a historic commercial building at 201 North St. Joseph Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a single-story frame structure, with brick walls and a flat roof. It is roughly L-shaped, with one wing originally serving as an automotive showroom and the other as a service and supply area. It was built in 1926 and enlarged a few years later, and is a well-preserved example of a 1920s automotive dealership building.
The Morrilton Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic central business district of Morrilton, Arkansas. The L-shaped district includes two blocks of East Railroad and East Broadway, between Division and Chestnut Streets, and three blocks of Division and Chestnut Streets, between Broadway and Vine. This area was mostly developed between 1880 and the 1920s, and was heavily influenced by the railroad, which passes between Broadway and Railroad. Prominent buildings in the district include the Morrilton Post Office, Morrilton Railroad Station, First National Bank of Morrilton, and the Coca-Cola Building.
The former Morrilton station is located on Railroad Avenue, between Division and Moose Streets, in downtown Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building, with a tile roof and Mediterranean styling typical of the stations of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The broadly overhanging roof is supported by large brackets, with a telegrapher's bay projecting on the track side. Built about 1907, it is an important reminder of the railroad's importance in the city's history. It now houses a local history museum.
The W. L. Wood House is a historic house at 709 North Morrill Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard exterior, and foundation of stone and brick. It has the asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period, with a three-story turret at the left corner, and a porch that wraps across the front and around the base of the tower. The porch is supported by round columns and has a turned balustrade and a low gable over the main steps. A large gable that projects from the main roof has a rounded-corner balcony at its center. The interior has richly detailed woodwork in the Eastlake style. The house was purchased as a prefab from Sears & Roebuck, shipped by rail to Morrilton, moved to its current location by mule drawn wagon and built in 1905–06 for William L. Wood, a prominent local businessman.
The West Church Street Historic District encompasses a collection of the finest late-19th and early-20th century homes in Morrilton, Arkansas. The district extends along West Church Street between South Morrill and South Cherokee Streets, and includes 23 primary buildings. All are houses, and include buildings from the earliest days of the city through the 1920s. The majority of the district's houses were built between 1926 and 1942, and are mainly Craftsman in style.
The Jonesboro U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a former federal building located at 524 South Church Street, in downtown Jonesboro, Arkansas. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of brick and limestone. The ground floor is visually presented as a basement level clad in red brick, while the upper levels are finished in stucco with brick trim. Although the building lacks rounded-arch openings normally found in the Renaissance Revival, it is laid out along lines typical of that style, with the courtrooms on the second floor in the piano nobile style. The building was built as a courthouse and post office in 1911–13 to a design by James Knox Taylor, the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury. It was used as a federal courthouse until 1977, and has seen a variety of commercial uses since then.
