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 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 Hubert & Ionia Furr House is a historic house at 702 Desoto Avenue in Arkansas City, Arkansas. The 1+1⁄2-story Dutch Colonial Revival house was built in 1910 by Hubert Furr, a local timber dealer. It has a basically rectangular plan, with a side-gable roof with flared eaves. The first floor is built out of decorative concrete blocks, while the gable ends and roof dormers are clad in wood shingles. There is a porch spanning the front facade supported by fluted Doric columns resting on a low wall of decorative concrete blocks.
The Harvey C. Couch School is a historic school building at the junction of County Roads 11 and 25 in rural Columbia County, Arkansas, several miles southeast of the county seat, Magnolia, in the hamlet of Calhoun. The school is a single story brick structure whose main block has a hip roof. Projecting from the main block are an open porch on its front, and three concrete staircases on its other elevations. The front porch shelters a double-door entry under a gable roof, and features Craftsman-style brackets. The building was built in 1928 as a gift to the community of Calhoun by its native son, Arkansas businessman Harvey C. Couch.
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 Otis Theodore and Effiegene Locke Wingo House is a historic house at 510 West De Queen Avenue in De Queen, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, built in 1904 but altered significantly later. Originally Queen Anne in style, the house has irregular massing and a complex cross-gabled roof line. Its original Queen Anne porch was replaced c. 1920 by an American Craftsman style porch with heavy wooden columns set on concrete and brick piers. A later shed-roof porch wraps around the southern side of the building, and at the rear of the house a 1/2 story was added at a later date. The house is notable as the home of United States Congressman Otis Theodore Wingo, and his wife Effiegene Locke Wingo, who served out his final term after his death and then was elected to Congress in her own right.
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 Raney House is a historic house at 1331 Monte Ne Road in Rogers, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare house, with a hip roof and a wraparound porch. It was built c. 1912 out of rusticated concrete blocks, a building material popular in the area for residential construction in the area between 1910 and 1925. This house is one of the most elaborate built from them in the area, with curved architraves between the porch columns and corners quoined with smooth blocks to highlight their appearance.
The Thurmond House is a historic house at 407 Britt in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is an American Foursquare wood-frame house, 2+1⁄2 stories in height with a wide hip roof. It is finished in novelty siding, with distinctive corner boards topped by capitals. A single-story porch, with a concrete base and piers, extends across the width of the front facade. The second level has a small central window flanked by trios of narrow one-over-one sash; there is a hip-roof dormer in the roof. Built c. 1910, the house is typical of many Foursquare houses built around that time, but is set off by its porch and corner boards.
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 House at 712 N. Mill Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a particularly fine local example of Craftsman/Bungalow style architecture. Built c. 1914, it is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, set on a foundation of rusticated concrete blocks. The walls are finished in novelty siding, and there is a shed-roof porch extending across most of its front, supported by slightly-tapered box columns mounted on concrete piers. The area under the porch includes exposed rafter ends. A gable-roof dormer with three sash windows pierces the roof above the porch.
The Columbus Hatchett House is a historic house at the northern corner of Main and Hazel Streets in Leslie, Arkansas. It is a large two-story structure, fashioned out of rusticated concrete blocks. It has vernacular Colonial Revival details, including egg-and-dart moldings above the window lintels, concrete quoining, Tuscan columns supporting the porch, and ornate Palladian windows. it was built in c. 1910 by Columbus Hatchett using locally fabricated concrete blocks, and is one of the community's finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.
The Servetus W. Ogan House is a historic house at 504 East Forrest Avenue in Wynne, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare building, built out of rusticated concrete blocks in 1910. It has a hip roof with hipped dormers, and a projecting single-story porch supported by square columns. It is one of the city's few examples of residential concrete-block construction, a style that was briefly popular in the area.
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 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 Patton House is a historic house on the south side of Arkansas Highway 25 in Wooster, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete block foundation. The front-facing gable extends over a recessed porch, the gable supported by distinctive shaped concrete block columns. The interior retains original built-in cabinetry and oak trim. The house was built in 1918, and is the small community's finest example of American Craftsman architecture.
The Joclin-Bradley-Bowling House is a historic house at 160 Arkansas Highway 95W in Clinton, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete block foundation. The roof has exposed rafter ends in the gables, and shelters a recessed porch which is supported by bracketed square posts set on brick piers. The house was built in 1854, and extensively altered in 1921 to give it its current Craftsman appearance.
The Threlkeld House is a historic house at 1301 North Boston Avenue in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and weatherboard siding. At one corner, a recessed porch is supported by square posts, the corner one mounted on a pier of rusticated concrete blocks. The house was built in 1914, and is unusual as an early vernacular house in a neighborhood of later houses featuring other styles. The house was owned until 1995 by members of the Threlkeld family.
The Scull Historic District encompasses two concrete-block houses at 428 and 432 Conway Boulevard in Conway, Arkansas. These two houses were built about 1928, using a style of ornamental concrete block that were a fashionable building material during the 1920s. Both are single-story structures, with hip roofs and four-column porches recessed under the roof. The houses were probably built by Ferdinand Lawrence Scull, a local manufacturer of the ornamental blocks used in their construction.
