The Old State House Museum, formerly called the Arkansas State House, is the oldest surviving capitol building west of the Mississippi River. It was the site of the 1861 secession debate, as well as the 1868 Constitutional Convention when delegates agreed to ensure voting rights for freedmen and establish public schools.
The Governor's Mansion Historic District is a historic district covering a large historic neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and its borders were increased in 1988 and again in 2002. The district is notable for the large number of well-preserved late 19th and early 20th-century houses, and includes a major cross-section of residential architecture designed by the noted Little Rock architect Charles L. Thompson. It is the oldest city neighborhood to retain its residential character.
Frank Carmean was an architect in Arkansas. Not formally trained as an architect, but rather experienced in building construction, he became a designer. He joined a firm in 1927 that was developing the Edgemont residential area of Little Rock, and is believed to have designed all but one of the 16 homes in the development. The firm billed him as their "architect", and he toured to collect new designs. He introduced or expanded the use of Spanish Colonial architecture in Little Rock.
The Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas was built in 1908. It was designed by architect George R. Mann, and built by Peter Hotze. The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Originally and for many years, the building served as the headquarters of the Arkansas Gazette newspaper. Its historic building in downtown Little Rock served as the national campaign headquarters for the 1992 presidential campaign of Governor Bill Clinton. It now houses the Elementary and Middle Schools for eStem Public Charter Schools.
The Arkansas Power and Light Building is a building in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Now also known as the Entergy Building, it was the first office building in downtown Little Rock built in the International style. Designed by the architect Fred Arnold of the Little Rock architectural firm of Wittenberg, Deloney and Davidson in 1953, it was not completed until 1959 due to uncertainty over the utility's requested rate increases and the expiration of laborers' union contracts.
The Royal Theatre at 111 S. Market St. in Benton, Arkansas was built in 1948-49 as an extensive renovation of a prior theatre, and is already deemed historic.
Curran Hall, also known as the Walters-Curran-Bell House, is a historic house at 615 East Capitol Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was built in 1842 for Colonel Ebenezer Walters. The single story house is built in the Greek Revival style with Doric pilasters at the entrance way. Two auxiliary buildings, constructed at about the same time as the main building, were moved and attached to the rear of the house in 1891.
The Choctaw Route Station is a historic former railroad station on East 3rd Street in the riverfront area of Little Rock, Arkansas. The building now houses the Clinton School of Public Service, a branch of the University of Arkansas at the Clinton Presidential Center. The station, built in 1899 for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, is a single-story brick building with elaborate terra cotta detailing, and is one of the architecturally finest stations in the state.
The Joseph M. Frank House is a historic house at 912 West Fourth Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a brick veneer exterior, and asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne style. It has a variety of gabled projections, recesses, and porches, as well as a projecting angled corner turret. A single-story porch extending across part of the front is supported by Colonial Revival Ionic columns. The house was built in 1900 for a local businessman, and was for many years divided into apartments or professional offices.
The MacArthur Park Historic District encompasses a remarkably well-preserved collection of Victorian buildings in the heart of Little Rock, Arkansas. The main focal point of the district is MacArthur Park, site of the Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal and Little Rock's 19th-century military arsenal. The district extends north and west from the park for about four blocks, to East Capitol Avenue in the north and Scott Street to the west, and extends south, beyond Interstate 630, to East 17th Street. This area contains some of the city's finest surviving antebellum and late Victorian architecture, including an particularly large number (19) of Second Empire houses, and achieved its present form roughly by the 1880s. The MacArthur Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The Marshall Square Historic District encompasses a collection of sixteen nearly identical houses in Little Rock, Arkansas. The houses are set on 17th and 18th Streets between McAlmont and Vance Streets, and were built in 1917-18 as rental properties Josephus C. Marshall. All are single-story wood frame structures, with hip roofs and projecting front gables, and are built to essentially identical floor plans. They exhibit only minor variations, in the placement of porches and dormers, and in the type of fenestration.
The Matthews-Storey House is a historic house at 8115 Ascension Road in southern Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a mostly single-story Craftsman Airplane-style structure, in which a small second story at the center makes the building resemble an early aircraft. The building features a carport to the right and a projecting porch to the front, each with supporting stone pillars and exposed rafters underneath. The house was built in 1925 by the Justin Matthews Company, a major developer in the city at that time.
The Miller House is a historic house at 1853 South Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1906 and twice enlarged by the same owner, the house is a reflection of the effect of segregation in the United States. Now a two-story brick-faced Craftsman-styled structured, it was originally built as a modest single-story cottage typical of the segregated African-American neighborhood in which it was located. It was purchased in 1924 by Arthur T. Miller, who was employed in a comparatively secure position as a railroad mail clerk. Prevented by segregation from moving to more affluent neighborhoods, Miller chose to enlarge the house, and then finish it in brick.
The Matthews-Bradshaw House is a historic house at 524 Skyline Drive in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, its exterior clad in brick and stone. A conical turreted section with diamond-pane windows projects from one corner, and the gable above the main entrance is finished in half-timbered stucco. Built in 1929 by the Justin Matthews Company as part of its Park Hill development, it is the only example Matthews built of the French Eclectic style. It was designed by Frank Carmean, the Matthews Company architect.
The Matthews-Bryan House is a historic house at 320 Dooley Road, North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built in the English Revival style in 1930 by the Justin Matthews Corporation as part of its Park Hill development. It has a steeply pitched gable roof, with cross-gabled entrance, and is faced in stone and brick. It was designed by Matthews Company architect Frank Carmean, and was one the last houses built by Matthews before the full effects of the Great Depression affected his building style.
The Railroad Call Historic District encompasses three adjacent railroad worker housing units at 108, 1112, and 114 South Pulaski Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. All three are single-story wood frame Colonial Revival structures, with gabled roofs and weatherboard siding, with some use of wooden shingles in gable ends. Two of the buildings have full-width front porches; the third has a half-width porch. These houses were built for workers constructing the nearby Missouri Pacific Railroad station. The buildings were saved from demolition in 1996 and converted to offices.
The South Main Street Apartments Historic District encompasses a pair of identical Colonial Revival apartment houses at 2209 and 2213 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Both are two-story four-unit buildings, finished in a brick veneer and topped by a dormered hip roof. They were built in 1941, and are among the first buildings in the city to be built with funding assistance from the Federal Housing Administration. They were designed by the Little Rock firm of Bruggeman, Swaim & Allen.
The Thornton House is a historic house at 1420 West 15th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame American Foursquare house, with a dormered hip roof, weatherboard siding, and single-story porch across the front. Its roof and dormer have exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style, and the porch is supported by fluted square columns, with spindled balustrades between. The oldest portion of the house is a small cottage, built about 1896 and subsequently enlarged several times. It is prominent as the home in the early 20th century of Dr. John Thornton, a prominent African-American physician, and also briefly of Charlotte E. Stephens, the city's first African-American teacher.
The Vaughan House is a historic house at 2201 Broadway in central Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a high brick foundation. A single-story porch extends across its front, supported by square posts set on stone piers. Gabled dormers in the roof feature false half-timbering above the windows. Most of the building's windows are diamond-paned casement windows in the Craftsman style. The house was built about 1910 to a design by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Corydon Wassell House is a historic house at 2005 South Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1882, it is a 1-1/2 story wood frame cottage, with modest Late Victorian trim, and is architecturally typical for the neighborhood. It is nationally significant as the home of the doctor and missionary Corydon M. Wassell (1884-1958). Wassell was awarded the Navy Cross for his service during World War II, and his life was immortalized in the film The Story of Dr. Wassell.
