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Absalom Fowler House

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Fowler,Absalom

Opened
  
1839

Built
  
1839 (1839)

NRHP Reference #
  
73000387

Added to NRHP
  
4 June 1973

Absalom Fowler House

Location
  
502 E. 7th St., Little Rock, Arkansas

Part of
  
MacArthur Park Historic District (#77000269)

Similar
  
Big Dam Bridge, Broadway Bridge, Little Rock Zoo, Funland Amusement Park, Pinnacle Mountain State Park

The Absalom Fowler House is a historic house at 502 East 7th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two story brick building, with a hip roof and a front portico supported by fluted Ionic columns and topped by a balustrade. The building is encircled by an entablature with modillion blocks and an unusual double row of dentil moulding giving a checkerboard effect. The house, built about 1840 by Absalom Fowler, a lawyer prominent in the state's early history. The house is now surrounded by a multi-building apartment complex.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

References

Absalom Fowler House Wikipedia