Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places

Whether it be in the colonnaded porches of Raised-Louisiana Cottages, also called French Colonial, along the Mississippi Delta during the eighteenth century, the Grecian porticos of the Early Classical Revival in the southern states during the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, the ever-romantic tempiettos of the Greek and Roman Revivals beginning in the late eighteenth century, the colossal colonnaded façades of the Beaux .Arts Classicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or the ever-popular and remarkably enduring stylings of the Late Classical Revival style, also called Neoclassical, spanning the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the influence of the ancient Western world has always been with us.1 Even after World War II, when the American architectural community was embracing the new ideals and aesthetics of the Modem movement, which originally rejected historical precedents, the influence of classical architecture again appeared. The style was typified by designs with a monumental presence, symmetrical façades, axial plans, smooth exterior cladding (typically stone or concrete), stylized columns or pilasters, flat roofs, formal landscape design, and a raised podium-like base, similar to the Classical Revival architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.3 The earliest building to be generally recognized as New Formalist was Edward Durell Stone's United States Embassy in New Delhi, India, begun in 1954.4 Stone continued to evolve the style in his design for the United States Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium. When the family decided to build a new structure to house their business offices on E. Sixth Street in Little Rock, Darragh decided Nolan Blass, Jr., was the man for the job.9 Darragh and Blass were lifelong friends, their families having been associated through the Temple B'Nai Israel. In addition to the Darragh Building, some of the more notable include the 1952 Oaklawn Jockey Club in Hot Springs, the 1956 Horace Mann High School in Little Rock, the 1957 J. C. Penney Building in Little Rock, the 1960 Blass Department Store in Pine Bluff, the 1965 Barton Residence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Medical School, the 1965 First American National Bank in North Little Rock, the 1969 Worthen Bank Building in Little Rock, and the 1974 Arkansas Supreme Court Rotunda building in Little Rock.11 When it came to his design of the Darragh Comp