Sanders House (Little Rock, Arkansas)

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Sanders House
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Location 2100 Gaines St., Little Rock, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°43′42″N92°16′52″W / 34.72833°N 92.28111°W / 34.72833; -92.28111 Coordinates: 34°43′42″N92°16′52″W / 34.72833°N 92.28111°W / 34.72833; -92.28111
Built 1917
Architect Sanders, Theo
Architectural style Colonial Revival
Part of Governor's Mansion Historic District (#78000620)
MPS Thompson, Charles L., Design Collection TR
NRHP reference # 82000924 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 22, 1982
Designated CP September 13, 1978

The Sanders House is a historic house at 2100 Gaines Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, topped by a gabled tile roof. Its facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a rounded porch supported by Tuscan columns. Windows in the side bays are sash, while that above the entrance is a band of four casement windows with Prairie School style. The house was built in 1917 to a design by local architect Theo Sanders. [2]

Little Rock, Arkansas Capital of Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County. It was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center. The city derives its name from a rock formation along the river, named the "Little Rock" by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in the 1720s. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The city's population was 198,541 in 2016 according to the United States Census Bureau. The six-county Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is ranked 78th in terms of population in the United States with 738,344 residents according to the 2017 estimate by the United States Census Bureau.

Prairie School architectural style

Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Sanders House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-02-11.