Yesterday’s Architeaser was a crest on the side of the Beal-Burrow Dry Goods Building. Built in 1920, this Charles Thompson structure is a Prairie School structure on Markham. It is now part of the Block 2 Lofts Development.
Here is another crest which can be found on a downtown building.
Yesterday’s Architeaser was a gas lamp on the Capital Hotel property. Though there are still a few gaslights still in use, they are certainly rarer than they once were.
Today’s Architeaser is below.
The dragon lamp featured in yesterday’s Architeaser is one of two which adorns the Tripp Building on the south side of Second Street (between Louisiana and Center Streets) in downtown Little Rock. There are two other lamps which feature the same simple globes but they are held by scalloped iron instead of dragons.
Today’s Architeaser is below. It features both a copper shield to deflect and focus the light as well as a wrought iron cage.
Yesterday’s Architeaser featured one of the iron lamps on the Markham Street facade of the Pulaski County Courthouse. They are just one of the numerous elements which decorate that edifice including wrought ron gates and carvings in granite.
Here is today’s Architeaser which is appropriate to showcase during the Year of the Dragon.
The Monday Architeaser featured one of the purple-tinted lamps outside of Little Rock City Hall. These two lamps are located on either side of the main entrance to City Hall on Markham Street.
Here is today’s Architeaser. Though attached to a building which takes up nearly half a city block, this lamp is the only exterior lamp on the edifice.
Yesterday’s Architeaser showed a Gothic styled lamp on the exterior of Little Rock’s Christ Episcopal Church. though this building was not standing at the time, this was the church where Douglas MacArhtur was baptized as an infant.
Here is today’s Architeaser. It is another lamp, but of a more recent architectural style than Gothic. It (and it’s twin) may be the only lamps in Little Rock with purple-tinted glass.
Yesterday’s architeaser showed the shadow from a wrought iron balcony cast against a brick wall on the Capital Hotel in downtown.
Here is today’s rather Gothic Architeaser.
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