The Old Little Rock Central Fire Station is a historic firehouse, next to
Little Rock City Hall at 520 West Markham Street in downtown
Little Rock, Arkansas. It is, from its front, a
Beaux Arts two-story masonry building, designed by
Charles L. Thompson
Charles L. Thompson and associates is an architectural group that was established in Arkansas since the late 1800s. It is now known as Cromwell Architects Engineers, Inc.. This article is about Thompson and associates' work as part of one ...
and built in 1913. The front facade is dominated by the former equipment bays, which are separated by fluted columns, and topped by an elaborate
architrave
In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns.
The term can ...
. The building is now used for other purposes by the city.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
See also
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References
Beaux-Arts architecture in Arkansas
Fire stations completed in 1913
National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas
Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
1913 establishments in Arkansas
Government of Little Rock, Arkansas
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