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Headquarters House, located at 118 East Dickson Street, is a historic house within the Washington–Willow Historic District in Fayetteville, Arkansas.The most historically significant structure in the city, it was built in 1853 and used as a base of operations for both the Union and Confederate States of America at different periods during the American Civil War.
The University of Arkansas Resiliency Center (RESC) is an interdisciplinary research and outreach center that is hosted by the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. [10] It was founded in 2018 by Dr. Marty Matlock, a professor of Ecological Engineering at the University of Arkansas.
Vol Walker Hall (earlier Vol Walker Library) is a building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It contains the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. [3] The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Old Main was constructed between 1873 and 1875 as part of a land grant for the state of Arkansas. [4] At this time it was known as University Hall. [2] It was designed by Chicago architect John Mills Van Osdel, [3] and construction was carried out by William Mayes of the firm of Mayes and Oliver. [5]
The Wilson Park Historic District (sometimes Rock House Historic District) is a historic district in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, located just northeast of the University of Arkansas. The district consists of several residential buildings that developed during the late 19th and early 20th Century near Wilson Park just north of Dickson Street ...
The University of Arkansas was founded in Fayetteville in 1871 as Arkansas Industrial University. [108] The land-grant/space-grant, high-activity research institution is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System. [109] Enrollment for the 2010 fall semester was 21,406 total students. [110]
The house was the first major design of architect John G. Williams, made in collaboration with his clients, David and Mary Margaret Durst. David Durst was at the time chairman of the art department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Williams was the head of its Architecture Department. [2]
Fayetteville began booming after the Civil War with the establishment of the Arkansas Industrial University in 1871 and completion of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (Frisco) to the city. The railway also helped the growing apple and strawberry industries surrounding Fayetteville and began the growth of a timber industry. [3]