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Little Rock Information Visitor's Center

Curran Hall

615 East Capitol

Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Circa 1842

Listed on the National Register and the Quapaw Quarter list of historic houses.

 

This house was originally a wedding present from Colonel Ebenezer Walter to his bride, who died shortly after completion.  Walters sold the house to David Baldwin, who sold it in 1849 to James Curran.  Curran died in 1854, leaving a wife with two small children and one on the way.  The house remained the property of Alice, the third child, until it was purchased in 1884 by Mary Woodruff Bell, daughter of Arkansas Gazette founder, William Woodruff.  The house was opened in 2002 as the Little Rock visitor's center.

Office Building - Circa 1840

Playhouse

Constructed 1848, Reconstructed 1960.

Restored 2002 by the Youth of First United Methodist Church

Little Rock's oldest continuous Congregation founded in 1831.

External Links:

Pulaski County | Structures | Scott Plantation One | Two | Three