Welch - Cherry House
The Welch-Cherry House was built about 1884 for Reverend Thomas R.
Welch, who for twenty-five years was the pastor of Little Rock's First
Presbyterian Church. The design of the house is subdued, but its front
porch and the hood molds over its windows show the influence of the
Italianate style of architecture. Following Thomas Welch's death, the
house was purchased in 1892 by Lewis W. Cherry, who was in the ice
manufacturing business and later became President of the State National
Bank in Little Rock. After Cherry's death in 1922, his widow occupied
the house until her death in 1957.
A gift of the Junior League of Little Rock to the Arkansas
Sesquicentennial.
June 15, 1986
?The Welch-Cherry House is built on
the former Crittenden Cemetery which was the first cemetery in
Little Rock. In 1834 it became unlawful to own a private
cemetery in Little Rock and bodies were thought to have been moved
to Mount Holly Cemetery, however, no records exist of this move and
it has been speculated that there could still be bodies buried
beneath the house." - Quapaw Quarter Chronicle,
January/February 1975 Volume 2 Number 6. Photo credit: Pat
Patterson.
