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Revision as of 16:38, 9 January 2009
Stifft's Station is a former streetcar stop for The Heights neighborhood of Little Rock located at the corner of Markham and Kavanaugh (formerly Prospect) streets. The station served the Pulaski Heights Line. The station is named after Charles S. Stifft, whose proposed addition to the city was annexed on November 18, 1897.
The buildings and areas immediately surrounding the streetcar stop are now known collectively as the Stifft Station Historic District. The residential neighborhood to the east of the streetcar stop is called the Capitol View Historic District. The Capitol View district extends from the Union Pacific railroad tracks to the campus of the University of Arkansas Medical Center between Markham Street and Interstate 630.
The area surrounding the station is the past and present location of a number of businesses.
Open businesses
- The Broom Closet
- Buice Drug Store
- George Jett's Gas & Service Station
- Pizza D' Action
- The Oyster Bar
- Sandalwood Forest
- Station Community Grocery and Deli
- Whitewater Tavern
Notable closed businesses
- Economy Drug Store
- Little Rock Paint and Wallpaper
- Arkansas Hospice Resale Shop
- Razorback Laundry
- Washateria
- Charles Stifft's Jewelry
- Erwin's Barber & Beauty Shop
- Model Cleaners
- Consolidated Gift & Variety
- ??? shoe repair
- Model Market
- ??? grocery store
- ??? liquor store run by Dolly
- KALO radio station
- ??? recording studio
- Bumpass Cleaners
