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Historic house in Arkansas, United States

For the eastern part of the neighbourhood in Scarborough also named Curran Hall, see Woburn, Toronto. United States historic place

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Location	615 E. Capitol St., Little Rock, Arkansas
Coordinates	34°44′34.2″N 92°15′52.5″W / 34.742833°N 92.264583°W / 34.742833; -92.264583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1842 (1842)
Architect	Gideon Shryock
Architectural style	Greek Revival
Part of	MacArthur Park Historic District (ID77000269)
NRHP reference No.	76000453
Added to NRHP	January 1, 1976
Designated CP	July 25, 1977

Curran Hall, also known as the Walters-Curran-Bell House, is a historic house at 615 East Capitol Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was built in 1842 for Colonel Ebenezer Walters. The single story house is built in the Greek Revival style with Doric pilasters at the entrance way. Two auxiliary buildings, constructed at about the same time as the main building, were moved and attached to the rear of the house in 1891.

The house is significant as one of the few remaining antebellum era landmarks in Little Rock. It served as the home of pre-Civil war Arkansas Supreme Court Justice George Watkins. Jacob Frolich purchased the home after the war, who would become a post-reconstruction Arkansas Secretary of State. Before that, however, Frolich, an opponent of the reconstruction Arkansas government and fearful of reprisals, fortified Curran Hall with trap doors and placed his livestock inside the house at night. Frolich was indicted for the murder of a reputed informant for the reconstruction government and fled to Canada, but later returned and was acquitted of the charge.

In 1976, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was acquired by the City of Little Rock and the Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission in 1996, renovated, and opened as an information center in 2002.

References

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Mike Shinn (September 9, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Curran Hall" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
"Little Rock Visitor Information Center at Historic Curran Hall". Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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