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Unit A of the Climber Motor Car Factory is a historic industrial building at 1823 East 17th Street in
Little Rock, Arkansas (The Little Rock, The "Little Rock") , government_type = council-manager government, Council-manager , leader_title = List of mayors of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_ ...
. It is a large wood-frame structure, topped by a gabled
monitor roof A monitor in architecture is a raised structure running along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof. The long sides of monitors usually contain clerestory windows or louvers to light or ventila ...
. Its walls are concrete block for the bottom , and wood frame between concrete pillars above. The building was constructed in 1919 for the
Climber Motor Company The Climber Motor Company was a short lived automobile manufacturer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sales were targeted towards the Southern United States such as Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, as well as Arkansas. It is the only car ever pro ...
, the only automobile manufacturer founded in the state, and was the only part actually built of a planned multi-building complex. The company manufactured automobiles here until 1924, after which it was used by Command-Aire to build light aircraft, and by the Great Northern Paper Company to manufacture
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. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2005.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas, ...


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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Industrial buildings completed in 1919 National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas Motor vehicle manufacturing plants on the National Register of Historic Places Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas 1919 establishments in Arkansas {{LittleRockAR-NRHP-stub