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Union Life Building

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Built
  
1911 (1911)

Opened
  
1911

Architectural style
  
Chicago school

NRHP Reference #
  
81000141

Area
  
800 m²

Added to NRHP
  
25 September 1981

Union Life Building

Location
  
212 Center St., Little Rock, Arkansas

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

The Union Life Building is an eleven-story skyscraper at 212 Center Street in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. It was designed by Arkansas architect George R. Mann in the style of the Chicago school, and was built 1911-16. It is T-shaped in footprint, with brick curtain-wall construction on all sides except the main facade, which is faced in terra cotta tile and glass. The first two levels of the facade are crowned by an ornate cornice, its second-level segmented-arch windows echoed in windows and an arch design at the top of the building. It is Little Rock's only major example of Chicago style commercial architecture.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

References

Union Life Building Wikipedia