The Conway Hotel is a historic hotel building at 108 Courthouse Square in

Murfreesboro, Arkansas Murfreesboro is a city in, and the county seat of, Pike County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 1,641 at the 2010 census. The city is known for the Crater of Diamonds State Park located south of the city. History In 1906, diamond ...

. Built in 1913, it was the first brick hotel building in the rural town; it was built in response to an influx of

diamond Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, ...

miners into the area after the Crater of Diamonds was discovered. It is a two-story structure with modest Craftsman styling. 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 ...

in 1986.

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Hotel buildings completed in 1913 1913 establishments in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Arkansas American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas {{PikeCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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