HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - MacArthur Park Historic District
OR:
MacArthur Park Historic District on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The MacArthur Park Historic District encompasses a remarkably well-preserved collection of Victorian buildings in the heart of
Little Rock, Arkansas ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ...
. The main focal point of the district is MacArthur Park, site of the
Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal The Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal, also known as the Main Building of the U.S. Arsenal at Little Rock, or Headquarters Building of the Little Rock Barracks, is the home of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. It is also ...
and Little Rock's 19th-century military arsenal. The district extends north and west from the park for about four blocks, to East Capitol Avenue in the north and Scott Street to the west, and extends south, beyond
Interstate 630 Interstate 630 (I-630) in Arkansas is an east–west connector within Little Rock ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. ...
, to East 17th Street. This area contains some of the city's finest surviving antebellum and late Victorian architecture, including an particularly large number (19) of Second Empire houses, and achieved its present form roughly by the 1880s. The MacArthur Park Historic District 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 1977.


See also

*
List of places named for Douglas MacArthur A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*
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, ...


References

Greek Revival architecture in Arkansas Historic districts in Little Rock, Arkansas Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Park Historic District National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Victorian architecture in Arkansas {{LittleRockAR-NRHP-stub