Southern Trust Building
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The Southern Trust Building is a ten-story, 96,598 square foot building located southeast corner of West Second and Center streets in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. Southern Trust is often described as the "first modern office building" in the state of Arkansas. The building was designed by architect George R. Mann and constructed in 1906 during the term of Southern Trust Company president William Marmaduke Kavanaugh. The building was constructed of glass and steel fireproof materials, wired for electrical lighting, had mail chutes and three elevators. The building cost $350,000.
The building, renamed the Home Insurance Building in 1929 and the Pyramid Life Building in 1938, has since the late 1970s been called Pyramid Place.
Former tenants
- E. L. Gaunt Co.
- First Pyramid Life Insurance Company of America
- Little Rock Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank
- Southern Trust Company
References
- Bernie Babcock, Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917), n.p.
- George Waldon, "New Life for State's First Skyscraper," Arkansas Business, May 30, 2005.
