Yesterday’s Architeaser was one of the terra cotta faces emerging from the facade of the original part of the Pulaski County Courthouse. Designed by Maximilian A. Orlopp in Romanesque Revival style, the building features ornate imagery in the red painted portions of the building which frame the stone work and roof line. The building was built from 1887 to 1889.
Today’s Architeaser is not a George Mann nor a Pulaski County Courthouse face.
May’s penultimate Architeaser was one of the helmeted heads which overlook doors to the Pulaski County Courthouse. Like the May 29 Genies and Union Life Building, the Courthouse and helmeted heads were the brainchild of George R. Mann. The courthouse was an expansion of the original 1880s courthouse which this adjoins. Mann did not try to duplicate the architecture of the original structure but instead built an impressive neo-classical “governmental” building which has a more timeless look than the original structure.
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Yesterday’s Architeaser was one of the four genies on the facade of the Centre Place building located at 212 Center Street. The building was designed by George R. Mann and was constructed between 1911 and 1917. In 1981 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Mann’s design was heavily influenced by buildings being constructed in Chicago at the time and also includes Beaux Arts elements (of which the genies are).
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Yesterday’s Architeaser featured two people holding a crest over the south entrance of the old YMCA building at Broadway and Sixth Streets. The building was built in 1928 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Yesterday’s Architeaser featured the front doors of the Cathedral of St Andrew. It depicts each of the twelve apostles post resurrection. The building was designed by Thomas Harding and opened in 1881.
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Yesterday’s Architeaser was a flower in a frieze on a building at the southwest corner of Louisiana and Fourth Streets. The building’s front door is actually on the corner. The featured flowers are above a secondary door which fronts Fourth Street. It faces the Tower Building parking lot.
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Yesterday’s Architeaser was a return to the Junior League of Little Rock/Women’s City Club/Elks Lodge building. Those flowers are in the masonry which forms an arch over the entrance to the front door.
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