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Railroad Call Historic District

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Area
  
less than one acre

Added to NRHP
  
9 July 1997

NRHP Reference #
  
97000749

Railroad Call Historic District

Location
  
108, 112, and 114 S. Pulaski St., Little Rock, Arkansas

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

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

The Railroad Call Historic District encompasses three adjacent railroad worker housing units at 108, 1112, and 114 South Pulaski Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. All three are single-story wood frame Colonial Revival structures, with gabled roofs and weatherboard siding, with some use of wooden shingles in gable ends. Two of the buildings have full-width front porches; the third has a half-width porch. These houses were built for workers constructing the nearby Missouri Pacific Railroad station (now the site of the 1921 Little Rock Union Station). The buildings were saved from demolition in 1996 and converted to offices.

The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Railroad Call Historic District Wikipedia