The Retan House is a historic house at 2510 South Broadway in

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. It is a modest two-story frame structure, with shallow-pitch

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with broad eaves. A single-story porch extends across the front, with a broad

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supported by stone piers. The entrance is on the left side, and there is a three-part window at the center of the front under the porch. Above the porch are a band of four multi-pane windows in the

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

style. The house was built in 1915 to a design by

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, and is one of his finer examples of the Prairie School style. The house was listed on the

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in 1982.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Prairie School architecture Houses completed in 1915 Houses in Little Rock, Arkansas {{LittleRockAR-NRHP-stub

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