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  • ...an envisioning a different kind of firm, one devoted to rehabbing existing building stock in the neglected downtown and managing the refurbished assets themsel ...est]]. Their plan involved renovation of two buildings and demolition of a building in between to create adjacent parking. The [[Department of Arkansas Heritag
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  • [[Ottenheimer Hall]] (the "River Market" building), with its indoor food vendors and outdoor farmer's market pavilion, anchor ...idea at first of going in with bulldozers and knocking everything down and building a lot of new apartments with restaurants and shops, tennis courts, and swim
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  • ...y, a design he called the "Bridge to the 21st Century." Polshek called the building "a very radical departure from any presidential library that's ever existed ...e railroad tracks and the bridge on the site dictated the placement of the building perpendicular to the river and elevated. The placement also pays homage to
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  • [[Image:Art Visitor.jpg|thumb|300px|Visitors admire art in the building's atrium. Photo by Casey Gambill.]] ...s Center''' (AAC) is a museum of arts and a center for the performing arts south of downtown Little Rock, located at 501 E. 9th Street in historic [[MacArth
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  • ...across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides - building bridges." ...Library in parallel with the Arkansas River bank. Later, they rotated the building ninety degrees to take advantage of a spectacular view of downtown Little R
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  • ...summer months to five inches in winter and spring. The average date of the first freeze is November 15th. The average date of the last freeze in the spring ...ner.jpg|thumb|300px|The City of Little Rock operates out of City Hall. The building once had a dome. Photo by Phil Frana.]]
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  • ...brownfield just east of the I-40 ramp and [[River Market District]] on the south bank of the Arkansas River in Little Rock. ...museum. Regular upkeep of the facilities - estimated at $4 million in the first year of operation - is supported by an endowment of $7.2 million and regula
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  • ...rvice and well-informed citizens are as essential to America in the twenty-first century as they were at the time of our founding." ...ervices desk is also located on the ground level. Visitors are reminded to first visit the 80-seat [[orientation theater]], which includes an endlessly repe
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  • *[[City Services Building]] - 120 Main Street (North Little Rock) ...to provide all horse- or mule-drawn rail transportation in the city. This first attempt to provide public transportation in the city immediately failed.
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  • '''Sturgis Hall''' is a building on the grounds of the [[William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park]] i ...complished the actual renovation between October 2003 and August 2004. The building required thirty I-beams weighing ten tons for added stability and load bear
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  • ...Shackleford Road. The 1200 Main Street bakery is located in the old [[Cohn Building]] built around 1911.
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  • ...said of the plan in 1977, "Metrocentre is a great thing, because it's the first thing, in my opinion, that's been done here since World War II for the pede ...], the [[Continental Building]], the [[Tower Building (office tower)|Tower Building]], [[J. C. Penney]], [[M. M. Cohn]], the [[Federal Reserve Bank]], [[KARK-T
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  • ...ed thirty-eight unit high-rise condominium complex under construction just south of Little Rock's [[River Market District]]. ..."top out" in the spring of 2008, and be complete in 2009. The cost of the building is expected to be about $82 million.
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  • ...tial Center and Park]]. The garden forms a gateway to the complex from the south and also a transitional zone between the [[Clinton Library]] and [[Clinton
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  • [[Image:Lr-arsenal-photo.jpg|thumb|300px|Little Rock Arsenal Building.]] ...home of the [[MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History]]. The Arsenal building is also the location of [[Little Rock Aesthetic Club]] meetings.
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  • ...[[John McAlmont]], [[James H. Southall]], and [[Claibourne Watkins]]. The first class of students numbered twenty. ...ical School]] in 1911. During the Great Depression the school moved to the building presently occupied by the [[Bowen School of Law]] near [[MacArthur Park]].
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  • ...dea for a museum at the railroad depot came in 1992 after Clinton used the building as a backdrop for a video shown at that year's Democratic National Conventi ...admission to the Hope Visitor Center and Museum, located at the corner of South Main & Division streets. The center is open year-round from 8:30 AM to 5 PM
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  • ...line the sidewalk astride the river, and elsewhere on the east side of the building.
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  • ...y building just south of the [[River Market]] in downtown Little Rock. The building was completed in January 2003. ..., and they need to be able to move whatever group they might need into the building and have them work as efficiently as possible."
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  • The [[State of Arkansas]] is located in the south-central part of the United States of America. Arkansas is bordered by Louis ...ate Henri de Tonti founded Arkansas Post in 1686. The trading post was the first permanent European settlement on the western side of the Mississippi River.
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  • ...letes a loop on the Arkansas River Trail formed by trails on the north and south sides of the river and the pedestrian-friendly [[Big Dam Bridge]] located s ...o a "inhabited bridge" complete with attached restaurant, hotel, or office building on the North Little Rock side. The collaborative is exploring the option of
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  • ...c District''' is a six hundred acre local ordinance historic district just south of downtown Little Rock. ...is bounded by I-30 and Ferry Street on the east, Fifteenth Street to the south, Scott and Cumberland streets to the west, and Capitol Street to the north.
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  • The '''Albert Pike Hotel''' is a 1929 Spanish Revival building at 701 South Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. The hotel was owned by the Southwest The Albert Pike Hotel, which now serves as an apartment building, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • ...ple''' is a 1924 Classical Revival building located along the 700 block of South Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. The edifice is made of limestone and
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  • ...l style. The Elks Club was designed by architect [[Theodore Sanders]]. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • ...kansas Carpet and Furniture Company]] in the 1890s. In the early 1900s the building was occupied by the Jewish Pfeifer Brothers, Leo and Harry, and their fathe ...," which at that time was a stretch given its located at what was then the south end of commercial Main Street. Pfeifer's competed between the world wars wi
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  • ...hool. After completing his graduate degree Vratsinas did a tour of duty in South Korea. In 1983 he became president of the [[Kelley-Nelson Company]]. ...[[Ed Demoss]] and [[Sam Alley]] in 1987. The company built the [[Stephens Building]], the [[Metropolitan National Bank Tower]], and [[Peabody Hotel]].
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  • ...he Arkansas River along the [[Southwest Trail]] to Texas. The bluff on the south side of the river protected the city of Little Rock from flooding. Neighbor ...ants in the area of Pulaski County were the [[Plum Bayou People]], a mound building civilization with remnants still visible at [[Toltec Mounds]] east of the c
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  • ...], an eight-story hotel, and retail shops on the lower floors of the Tower building and the [[Tuf-Nut Lofts]] which also occupy the block. The entire developme
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  • ...Arkansas. The headquarters of the firm moved to North Little Rock from the south side of the river in 2005 to make way for the [[300 Third Tower]] in downto *Edward Klump, "Building on Tower Downtown Starts Soon," '"Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' October 15,
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  • ...ion of multilevel parking ramps strategically placed on both the north and south ends of the street. A sense of "newness, light, and space" would be created ...esignated for work on a proposed [[Quapaw Quarter]] of historic homes just south of downtown.
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  • ...t South Building and the Rogers Building before being renamed the Stephens Building when a partnership was forged between the [[Doyle Rogers Company]] and [[St ...feet of usable office space and thirteen elevator shafts. The base of the building is made of burgundy granite. A 740-space parking garage is across the stree
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  • .... Rickon]] in 1891. The two worked together in the [[Allis Building]] just south of the [[Old State House]]. Rickon left in 1897.
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  • ...lso known as the '''White-Baucum House''') is an Italianate mansion at 201 South Izard Street in [[Little Rock]], Arkansas. The house was constructed by [[R Beginning in the 1950s the home was converted to commercial use. The building became the home of [[Don Mehlburger Engineers]] in the late 1970s. The home
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  • ...p's goal in the Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go t ...esignated for work on a proposed [[Quapaw Quarter]] of historic homes just south of downtown. The plan included projected razing of 2,292 houses and tenemen
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  • The '''Doctors' Building''' was established at 500 South University Avenue in the spring of 1964. More than sixty doctors and a few
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  • ...n Arkansas for one year. It was surpassed by the fourteen story [[Donaghey Building]].
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  • '''Saint Edward's Catholic Church''' is located at 823 South Sherman Street in the [[Diocese of Little Rock]]. The church is across the ...dward Fitzgerald]], then the bishop of Little Rock. A two-story wood-frame building was erected and dedicated at the site on August 26, 1885. The church name h
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  • ...dents in the program pursue their general education course of study in the first two years with other honors students in large groups and small groups. Stud ...colleges are designed to address the special academic and social needs of first-year college students. There are four unique residential living and learnin
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  • ...sts of the Diocese of St. Louis, who traveled to the city around 1830. The first mass in the city was celebrated in 1830. This mass was said by Friar [[Pete ...eered by friars [[Joseph Richard Bole]] and Paris. The land for the church building, referred to as the "Old French Church," was donated by Colonel [[Chester A
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  • ...e finalists were considered: Arkadelphia, Conway, and Searcy. On the fifty-first ballot Conway was selected. The trustees were swayed by an offer of $10,000 ...dining hall, and classrooms. The two other buildings, North Dormitory and South Dormitory, served as residences. An original President's Home was also hast
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  • ...kansas, was built in 1920 for the [[Fones Brothers Hardware Company]]. The building was renovated in 1993 to house the [[Main Library]] of the [[Central Arkans
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  • ...n and East Capitol avenues in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The Exchange Building was built in 1921.
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  • ...pany headquarters was constructed from two adjoining buildings. The corner building at 705 Louisiana was built in stages from 1906 to 1921. The next door struc
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  • ...rder: 1px solid #A3BFB1; padding: 5px; background: #CEF2E0">Street View of First Christian Church, 1500 North Mississippi</h5>{{#widget:Google Street View '''First Christian Church''' is a congregation of the Christian Church (Disciples of
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  • ...s in Little Rock, Arkansas. A playground was located directly south of the building.
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  • ...uilding was located at the corner of Scott Street and Capitol Avenue. This building in 2009 is occupied by the offices of the ''[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]'' ...orner of South Broadway and West Sixth streets (524 Broadway) in 1928. The building was designed by [[George Richard Mann]] and [[Howard Seymour Stern]]. Durin
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  • ...aptist Church''' and its Educational Building have been located at 904-914 South Cross Street in [[Little Rock]], Arkansas, since at least the middle of the
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  • ...d by architect [[Charles L. Thompson]] and constructed in 1925. The church building was formerly occupied by the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church. The Emmanuel Baptist Church was earlier located at 817 South Chester Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, around the middle of the twentieth
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  • ...for the church was completed that same year. The church was located at 901 South State Street around the middle of the twentieth century.
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