Governor's Mansion

1800 Center Street

Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas

c 1947 - 1950

The Governor's Mansion sits on the site of "Rosewoood," an 1840's estate.  The site was also the home to the Arkansas School for the Blind from 1869 - 1939.

From Bill Boggess: I found that the Governors Manson was built with some 300,000 bricks cleaned by prisoners from the old Blind school. Their history says the
first brick three story building, built in 1869, was dedicated to
Colonel Gray.

Secondly, the Wright's Addition, to the west, was home for Senator Solon
Borland and family 1854 till they moved to Princeton ca 1858 and he sold
it to Dr Wright. (Dr Wright donated some $30,000 to the Baxter fund in
the 1874 'Brooks-Baxter War'.