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.
The Columbia County Jail is a historic structure at Calhoun and Jefferson Streets in Magnolia, Arkansas. The brick two story structure in Umatilla County was designed by Thompson & Harding and was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Italian Renaissance architecture. It is faced in cream-colored brick, and has a terracotta hipped roof. It has an entrance portico with round arches supported by slender columns and gargoyles at its corners.
The Hamilton Apartments are a historic apartment house at 113 West Danner Street in West Memphis, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick and stucco structure with a gable-on-hip roof. The first floor is finished in brick veneer up to the base of the second floor windows, while the rest of the exterior is finished in cream-colored stucco. The main entrance is centered on front facade, and there is a projecting bay with gable roof above, finished in stucco with applied half-timber detailing. The interior includes well-preserved period woodwork and plasterwork. Built in 1936, this building is one of a modest number of buildings to survive a major flood of the area the following year, owing to its location on some of the highest ground in the area. The building is also an excellent local example of Craftsman-Tudor Revival styling.
The Kress Building is a historic commercial building at 210 West Main Street in Blytheville, Arkansas. It is a two-story concrete and steel structure, faced in brick and terra cotta. Built in 1938, it was one of the first buildings in the city to be built using steel framing, and is one of its finest Art Deco structures. The first floor areas are faced in terra cotta, while the second floor is predominantly cream-colored brick. Windows on the second floor are surrounded by ivory terra cotta incised with fluting and shell patterns.
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 Mettie 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 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 Owens Sr., a prominent local mason known for his distinctive styles of stone and brickwork.
The Farris and Evelyn Langley House is a historic house at 12 Langley Lane in Republican, Arkansas. It is a rectangular frame house, its exterior finished in stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A gabled roof covers the house, extending over a recessed entry porch, its corner supported by a brick post. The ranch-style house was built in 1956 by Silas Owens, Sr., a mason noted regionally for his distinctive style. Hallmarks of his style are evident in this house, including the cream brick, and angled placement of the stones on the building's larger surfaces.
The S.D. Merritt House is a historic house at 45 Arkansas Highway 25 North in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, its exterior clad in a distinctive combination of fieldstone laid in herringbone patterns, and cream-colored brick trim. It was designed by Silas Owens, Sr., a prominent regional African-American mason, and built c. 1950 by Owens and his son, Silas Jr. It is a basically L-shaped structure, with a covered carport at the left end, and a forward-projecting section on the right.
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 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 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.
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.
