2 times 13 photos of 2013

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Scott

Here are 26 of the Culture Vulture’s favorite photos from 2013.

Mount Holly Cemetery in January 2013.

A former movie theatre at 13th and Pine.

Faded advertisement at 12th and Cedar.

A father and daughter enjoying time together at the Arkansas Arts Center.

Looking up through the grand staircase at Little Rock City Hall.

Peering through a piece of public art in the River Market.

Doorways

Inside one of the houses on the Quapaw Quarter Spring Tour.

A Superhero and his mother leaving the library after checking out books and games.

A duck enjoying the Carrie Remmel Dickinson Fountain at the Arkansas Arts Center.

The stairwell in the Villa Marre.

A downtown streetsign.

The Broadway Bridge balustrade reflected in a rain puddle.

The stairwell in the auditorium on the Philander Smith campus.

The Tower Building.

Geese at dusk over MacArthur Park.

Raindrops rest on the new Patty Cake sculpture in Riverfront Park.

The Capital Hotel.

A pigeon at City Hall.

Birds alighting on transformer wires.

A downtown sidewalk.

The Clinton Presidential Bridge during the JCA Walk for CommUNITY.

Gingko leaves in Hillcrest.

Robinson Auditorium

Steps along the Broadway Bridge after the December snow.

A December sunset in midtown Little Rock.

May 14 Architeaser

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Scott

Not only is the Catlett-Prien Tower Building a great example of the International school of architecture, it is also home to the Department of Arkansas Heritage and several of its agencies, including the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. Because of this, it is today’s Architeaser feature (as part of Arkansas Heritage Month). It is also home to the non-profit Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.

The Tower Building was designed by Dallas architect Harold A. Berry in collaboration with Little Rock architect Frank Eugene Withrow. The Tower Building was Withrow’s first big project. The building was the brainchild of future Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

Construction of the Tower Building began in 1958 and finished in 1960 for a cost of $4 million. At 18 stories, it would be Little Rock’s tallest building from 1960 until 1968 when the Union Bank Building was completed.