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296: 103:. The mansion and its grounds comprise a city block, dividing Center Street in its 1800-numbered block, and anchor the city's Governor's Mansion Historic District, encompassing many homes and businesses along and around lower Broadway. The first official residence of Arkansas's governors opened on January 10, 1950, to a week-long open house for all Arkansans. The Georgian Colonial Revival home was renovated and expanded from 2000 through 2002, reopening for the inauguration of 643: 903: 891: 57:
Throughout the Quapaw Quarter, many small and large homes from the Antebellum and Victorian eras can be found, in addition to several examples of Craftsman-style architecture. Scott, Center, and Spring streets, in particular, are where many such homes stand today. The exterior of the Villa Marre, one
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The South Main Residential Historic District — nicknamed SoMa by some area locals — was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 according to the Department of Arkansas Heritage. The district, which runs along South Main Street between 19th and 24th streets, is notable for its
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founded in 1878. Its headquarters are in a circa-1904 building at the intersection of East Capitol Avenue and Scott Street that formerly housed a branch of the
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As many as fifteen separate National Historic Register Districts make up the Quapaw Quarter, including more than 200 separate homes and buildings on the
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assortment of quality late 19th and early 20th century residential architecture, including the Queen Anne, Craftsman, and Colonial Revival styles.
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The MacArthur Park Historic District, dedicated in 1981, adjoins the city's MacArthur Park along East 9th Street, including the
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such home, was known nationally as the outside of the home containing the office of Sugarbaker Designs, the fictional
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website, whose congregation's Gothic Revival church building dates from the 1920s
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virtual tour at the Arkansas Governor's Office official website
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central business district, contains the headquarters of the
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Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Quapaw Indians
National Register of Historic Places
Interstate 630
Atlanta
interior design
CBS
sitcom
Designing Women
Arkansas Governor's Mansion
Suzanne Sugarbaker
Mike Huckabee
Governor of Arkansas
Arkansas Arts Center
Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific Theater
World War II
Mount Holly Cemetery
Mount Holly Cemetery
David Owen Dodd
William E. Woodruff
downtown
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
YMCA
Quapaw Quarter Association
Arkansas Governor's Mansion
Arkansas Governor's Mansion
Trapnall Hall

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