Yesterday’s Architeaser was the awning on the 1911 George Mann designed Centre Place Building. The building is Beaux Arts meets Chicago in style. The awning is simpler – cast iron painted brown with few decorations – when contrasted with other awnings of the time period which are still extant in Little Rock. One of the unique features of this awning is that it is affixed to the building by chains instead of cables or rods.
Here is today’s double decker Architeaser.
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.
Here is today’s Architeaser.
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