http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/25/say-goodbye-to-another-historic-house Comments On: Say goodbye to another historic house by Leslie Newell Peacock en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 02:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Louis Weedman]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:39:29 -0500 Arkansas Times
However, as much as I love history and preservation you can't save everything. There has to be balance between preservation and modern progress.

Also, to my knowledge, there has never been any organized movement to save, preserve, or otherwise promote the houses in the Cantrell area. "Maybe this will be a wake up call to do so"
Posted by OnlyInArkansas]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:05:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Alex DePriest]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:45:54 -0600 Arkansas Times I could be wrong, but wasn't Mr. Stephens on the board of the Quapaw Quarter Assoc.?
Posted by HeritageSaver]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:55:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sandra Orr Cassimus]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:12:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
LRSD owns it so they can do with it as they please. Just like you could have bought the house on cantrell, but you didn't. The name of the game is "own it".
Posted by arkansas panic fan]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:36:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
Should Central High School be tore down? It really does not represent modern teaching methods and getting the wiring up to date not to mention the security issues from the many entrances is a night mare. I say get rid of it......LR kids deserve better than that ugly looking white elephant.
Posted by larock72]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:06:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by larock72]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:04:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
My apologies, SP, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean all of Cantrell. I meant this specific part... a school to the west, Dillards across the street, a dangerous curve and viadock to the east and a working railroad in the back yard. All the residential neighbors left some time ago. Closest residential building (that I can think of) are some old apartments by the train station three blocks or so away.

There's little in this specific stretch of Cantrell to make "most" people consider it a place to live.
Posted by Slingerland]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:44:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by joanimal]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:13:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by joanimal]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:06:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
Across the Big Pond a "New Castle" is 600 years new. The old castle is probably 1200.

What is great in America is that one can build their own furniture and then later sell it as antique.

At only 53 I can cite many structures on 3rd and 4th developement.

The Embers Steakhouse of my childhood, owned by parents of school mates, demolished and made way for some TV star restaurant place. I think it was George Lindseys or maybe Festus. The same building later bacame Bennigans (Burnagains).

That lived for decades, I was a busboy there in early '70's.

Now it is McDonalds.

For non-Lil Rockers, Markham and University.

(I bet with all the dried booze and grease soaked into the carpet a 3rd burning was going to have been quite a show and faster than bulldozing.

Like I told my wife when a neighbor sold off his timber and it was clearcut. If you want to control all you have to do is own it.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:00:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
Every town and city in America has historic old buildings and homes that are / were beautiful examples of their period.

Everybody seems to want to "preserve" them.

But for what? For how long? Forever? For restaurants? Other commercial uses? At what costs to bring them up to code?

I understand the owners of the Packet House spent over $1 million. And it's fabulous!

But every old home in every old block in every old section of every town and city can't justify that expense, nor succeed as a restaurant. Economic realities dictate triage.

Sad but true. Everything and everybody dies, sooner or later. Not every historic structure has the significance or staying power of the pyramids and Sphinx.

Mourn and move on.

That's my motto and show business is my life.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:25:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
So tear it all down and it won't matter much to me. Keep the bulldozers busy and LR will someday look like downtown Roland, Oklahoma. And notice that getting a property on the National Historic Register means absolutely nothing.

You can get your embossed certificate in the mail one day and torch the joint the next day....it means absolutely nothing except for a one time use if you run out of toilet paper on a snowy day. Just another day on the Stephens Arkansas Plantation....the preservation darkies cain't do a damn thing but cry in their gruel.

"The association of the Bruner-Hammond House with Little Rock businessman James R. Miller coupled with the fact that the house is an excellently maintained example of American Queen Anne architecture give historic significance to the Bruner-Hammond House." Yeah.....right!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:01:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:48:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Too bad he doesn't make good use of it for the betterment of the community like other wealthy individuals do.

You think the river trail is fragmented near ECS now.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:45:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by larock72]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:06:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:05:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Slingerland]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:26:32 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:51:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
Do I think the building is beautiful and would be a wonderful restoration project? Absolutely... but not in its current location. Think how long the Packet House sat vacant. The Capitol Hotel makes sense... look at the location... but how many of us would want to live right on Cantrell with the noise and traffic? The railroad in the back yard? The city changed around the building and apartments don't make sense on that corner anymore.

Last... none of us knows what the building inspection report says. The outside may be (potentially) beautiful but what's under the skin?

Bottom line... yes, it's a beautiful building, but none of us stepped up to buy it. His money, not ours.
Posted by Slingerland]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:39:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
Poor Warren, the down-trodden landlord.

Regards the asbestos? If they demolish the building, then they will need to test for it first.
If it's there? Then it must be abated and desposed of where required.

Need to start calling it Little Warren instead of Little Rock.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:26:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:25:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by B Rock Sucks]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:24:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
Whatever replaces it probably won't have the elegance that this house has.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:07:00 -0600 Arkansas Times