Area less than one acre Architectural style Bungalow/craftsman Opened 1906 | Built 1906 (1906) NRHP Reference # 99000543 Added to NRHP 28 May 1999 | |
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MPS Historically Black Properties in Little Rock's Dunbar School Neighborhood MPS Similar Big Dam Bridge, Broadway Bridge, Little Rock Zoo, Funland Amusement Park, Pinnacle Mountain State Park | ||
The Thornton House is a historic house at 1420 West 15th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame American Foursquare house, with a dormered hip roof, weatherboard siding, and single-story porch across the front. Its roof and dormer have exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style, and the porch is supported by fluted square columns, with spindled balustrades between. The oldest portion of the house is a small cottage, built about 1896 and subsequently enlarged several times. It is prominent as the home in the early 20th century of Dr. John Thornton, a prominent African-American physician, and also briefly of Charlotte E. Stephens, the city's first African-American teacher.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.