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'historic preservation'

A Chick-fil-A on Broadway? There will be questions

A Chick-fil-A for Broadway and 7th. Traffic is the major issue, but not the only one.
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Parker Westbrook, Arkansas's great preservationist, dies at 89

Parker L. Westbrook, a pre-eminent Arkansas preservationist, died Thursday. He was Arkansas's pre-eminent preservationist (formation of possessive form of the state intended).
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Junior League to buy back historic easement to end window debate

A proposal has been placed on the Little Rock City Board's agenda to revoke a historic facade grant easement for the Junior League's headquarters building, the Woman's City Club at 401 Scott. It's the latest round in a debate over historic preservation

Quapaw Quarter Association opposes Junior League remodeling plan before City Board

The Quapaw Quarter Association is rallying its members to oppose the Junior League of Little Rock's request to the Little Rock City Board to be released from an agreement to maintain the historic facade of the Women's City Club at 4th and Scott.
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Chicken in the hen house: Notes on the preservation front

Who says the Capitol Zoning District Commission is too ticky? All seem agreeable to building a chicken coop in the yard of a historic house in the Quapaw Quarter.

Secure Arkansas warns of UN takeover of Mountain View

Secure Arkansas warns that a plan to create a historic district in Mountain View is actually a UN plot. What will Sen. Missy Irvin say about this?
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MEMS' demolition threatens Historic District benefits

I wrote recently about the demolition of the former Massery Cleaners at 7th and Cross by the Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services, a city agency, for future expansion of its nearby headquarters.

Salvage firm says teardowns are for private school

Southern Accents, the salvage company that is dismantling two historic houses on Cantrell Road that will be demolished, has published an article in its newsletter titled "Salvage Adventure in Arkansas."
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QQA statement on Cantrell tear-downs

The Quapaw Quarter Association has issued a press release on its unsuccessful efforts to stave off the demolition of the Bruner House at 1415 Cantrell Road and the house next door, at 1407 Cantrell, including two letters it wrote the Episcopal Collegiate School and Stephens Inc.

Say goodbye to another historic house

The 1891 Bruner House at 1415 Cantrell Road, which is on the National Register of Historic Properties, will be torn down in the coming weeks.
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Seven historic sites worth saving

The Historic Preservation Alliance has released its annual list of endangered properties. It includes historic houses in Benton, Pine Bluff and Little Rock (one being the Packet House, which may be saved by a pending proposal to develop a restaurant there); a cemetery; a Civil War battlefield, and more.
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