The Church of Christ is a historic church building at the junction Arkansas Highways 310 and 25 in Guy, Arkansas. It is a single story cruciform structure, built of brick and stone in the Craftsman style. It was built in 1936-37 by Silas Owens, a local master mason, and is Guy's finest stone church. It is a gabled vestibule with the entrance recessed in a round-arch opening that has been enclosed in glass. Door and window openings are quoined in light brick, contrasting with earth-toned stone of the walls. The congregation is associated with the Churches of Christ. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Spears House is a historic house at 1235 United States Route 65 in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single-story frame structure, faced in rock veneer with cream-colored brick trim. Built about 1946, it is basically Craftsman in style, with the stylistic of the regionally prominent African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr. seen in the use of cream-colored brick, arched openings, and herringbone stone patterns on the walls.
The Merritt House is a historic house at 139 North Broadview in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, finished with a masonry veneer, with an irregular plan featuring a variety of roof gables. The exterior is finished in sandstone with cream-colored brick trim. The main entrance is set under a deep front porch, whose front has a broad flat-topped arch, with a gable above that has a louver framed in brick. The house was built by Silas Owen, Sr., a local master mason, in 1948 for Billy Merritt. It was built using in part stone from a house built by Owen for Merritt's father, which had recently been torn down.
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.
Silas Owens Sr. was a mason and builder in Arkansas.
The Castleberry–Harrington Historic District encompasses a collection of three mixed masonry buildings erected between 1946 and 1950 by regionally known master mason Silas Owens Sr. on Castleberry Road in rural northwestern Faulkner County, Arkansas. All are single story stone structures, built of various shades of sandstone and other materials, and were built for various members of the extended Castleberry and Harrington families. One of them has an applied herringbone pattern of stonework for which Owens was particularly well known. The three houses are located on Castleberry Road, south of the hamlet of Republican.
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 Dennis and Christine Garrison House is a historic house at 105 Garrison Road in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story frame structure, finished in a veneer of stone and brick in 1951 by Silas Owens, Sr., a local master mason. The house has a number of hallmarks of Owens' work, including cream brick trim around the building corners and the openings of doors and windows, and an arched entrance porch. The herringbone patterns in the stonework are also an Owens signature. The chimney, with similar styling, was added by Owens' son Silas Jr.
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 Quattlebaum–Pelletier House is a historic house at 43 Ozark Street in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in a combination of fieldstone veneer and cream-colored brick. Built in 1942, it has many of the hallmarks of the work of Silas Owens Sr., a regionally prominent African-American mason, including an arcaded recessed porch, and the types of exterior materials used. Owens departed from his usually herringbone pattern for laying the stone on the walls, instead using longer and thinner sandstone in a geometric pattern.
The James and Jewell Salter House was a historic house at 159 South Broadview in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It was a single-story wood frame structure, finished in stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim elements. It was built about 1945, its exterior masonry done by Silas Owens, Sr., a regionally prominent African-American stonemason. It was unusual among Owens's works as an example of English Revival architecture done with his stylistic touches.
The Solomon Grove Smith–Hughes Building is a historic community building on Solomon Grove Road in Twin Groves, Arkansas. It is a single-story stone structure, built out of locally quarried stone and covered by a gable-on-hip roof. It was built in 1938 with funding support form the Works Progress Administration, and first served as a school. It was built by the African-American mason Silas Owens Sr. on land he sold to the city in 1937. It now houses a library.
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 Earl and Mildred Ward House is a historic house at 1157 Mitchell Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, with a stone veneer exterior, cream-colored brick trim, and a gabled roof. A gabled porch projects from the center of the modest house, with an arched opening lined with bricks. The house was built in 1949 by African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr., and is the only house he is known to have done in granite instead of his preferred sandstone.
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.
The Walter Patterson House is a historic house at 1800 United States Route 65 in Clinton, Arkansas. It is a single-story stone structure, built out of local fieldstone with cream-colored brick trim. Its gabled roof has extended eaves with exposed rafters in the Craftsman style. The house was built in 1946, its stonework done by the regionally prominent mason Silas Owens Sr.
