Volume 1 | 2022 | January |
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QQA Chronicle, First Quarter, 2022 |
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- Recap of the QQA Annual Membership Meeting & Greater Little Rock Preservation Awards
- Members-Only Reception January 2022
- Upcoming Preservation Conversations
- Historic Building Marker Program Special Opportunity for 2022
- 2022 QQA Tour of Homes: Governor's Mansion Neighborhood
- Remembering Muriel Stuck McCord
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2021 Annual Membership Meeting & Greater Little Rock Preservation Awards |
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Board Member Elections, Reelections, and Retirements |
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The QQA Annual Membership Meeting took place at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center on November 3. Board President Molly McNulty chaired the meeting.
Long-time QQA board member Chuck Cliett chaired the Nominating & Board Development Committee for 2021, and helped reelect several board members, said goodbye to two board members, and welcomed one new board member.
Board members reelected at the meeting include: David Robinson, Kenya Eddings, Nome Brown, and Joshua Price. Retiring board members include Molly McNulty and Patricia Peacock. Our newest board member is long-time QQA volunteer Callie Williams.
For the 2021 Greater Little Rock Preservation Awards, the awards committee included Lindsey Boerner, Toni Johnson, Bobby Mathews, Julie Robinson, and Dondi Warren.
The emcee for the Greater Little Rock Preservation awards was Scott Whiteley Carter, Public Affairs and Creative Economy Advisor for the City of Little Rock.
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Richard C. Butler Awards of Merit
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Brian Minyard, AICP, Urban Designer, City of Little Rock, retired from his post on August 15.
Read more about Brian's service to the city and the QQA here.
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Murphy-Jeffries Building, Little Rock |
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On the day Terri Jeffries reached out to QQA Executive Director Patricia Blick asking for assistance, Patricia began an intense and challenging collaboration with Belynda Jeffries and Terri Jeffries to develop a strategy to save their father’s building at 2901-2903 Martin Luther King.
Read more about saving this remarkable structure here.
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Bob Keltner, a principal with Cromwell Architects Engineers, is a resident of the Hillcrest National Register District and lives in a home that was inhabited by the famous artist Adrian Brewer.
Read more about Bob's historic preservation education work here.
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Restoration of Cascading Waterfall at the Old Mill, North Little Rock |
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The Old Mill, located in the T.R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock, is a central Arkansas landmark. It is a historic re-creation of an 1880s water-powered grist mill. It features sculptures by Senor Dionicio Rodriguez and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Read more about the cascading waterfall here.
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The Crumley House, 512 Willow Street, Argenta, North Little Rock |
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The Crumley House, 512 Willow Street, a contributing resource of the Argenta National Register Historic District in North Little Rock, sustained catastrophic damage when a tree fell on the house in 2019.
Read more about the rehabilitation of this structure here.
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The Cohn House, 904 Scott, Little Rock |
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The Cohn House at 904 Scott is a significant contributing property in the MacArthur Park Historic District. It was built in 1871 and was first listed in the Little Rock city directories in 1878 under prominent businessman Morris Cohn, who had married into the Mandelbaum Family.
Read more about the rehabilitation of this structure here.
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Rehabilitation of 716 and 722 Sherman Street, MacArthur Park, Little Rock |
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716 and 722 Sherman Street are both contributing resources of the National Register listed MacArthur Park Historic District.
Read more about Kevin and Gary Haney's rehabilitation of these properties here.
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Rehabilitation of 520 Cedar Street, Hillcrest, Little Rock. |
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520 Cedar Street is a contributing resource of the Hillcrest National Register Historic District.
Donna Thomas purchased the house from Albert Everett in August 2019. Read more about her rehabilitation of 520 Cedar Street here.
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Rehabilitation of the Beverly Apartments, 406 E. 7th Street, Little Rock
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The Beverly Apartments, at 406 E. 7th Street, are a contributing resource of the MacArthur Park National Register Historic District.
Read more about the rehabilitation of the Beverly Apartments here.
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The QQA is pleased to present the 2021 Peg Smith Award to Ann Ballard Bryan,
who was elected to the QQA board of directors in 2019.
Read more about Ann Ballard Bryan's work for the QQA here.
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Instituted in 1980, the Jimmy Strawn Award is bestowed upon someone whose efforts on behalf of the preservation of Greater Little Rock’s architectural heritage are an inspiration to the entire community. This year the QQA is pleased to award the Jimmy Strawn Award to Tony Curtis.
Read more about Tony Curtis and his work in historic preservation here.
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Join the QQA for our annual Members-Only Reception at the Polk Stanley Wilcox Headquarters in the historic Winchester Auto Store at 801 S.Spring Street, Little Rock.
Sunday January 30, 2022
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Polk Stanley Wilcox
801 S. Spring Street
Proof of vaccination
against Covid-19 required
for entry.
Not a member and want to come? Join here for as little as $35.00.
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Upcoming Preservation Conversations |
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Preservation Conversations-Documenting the Frontiers: Jean Bernard Bossu's "Among the Quapaw Indians" by Sonia Toudji, Ph.D., UCA
January 13
This event is in person, and offered live via Zoom and YouTube.
In person: Reception starts at 5:30 p.m., event starts at 6:00 p.m. Limited to 40 people. Must show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 at the door for entry. Must RSVP in advance by emailing [email protected]. Event at the meeting room in the Old Paint Factory building, 1300 E. 6th Street, Little Rock.
You can register for Zoom by clicking the button below. Zoom presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
YouTube Live: You can watch via YouTube Live here. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
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Preservation Conversations:
A Panel Discussion on the Murphy-Jeffries Building, its History and its Future with Belynda Jeffries, Helen Jeffries, and Stephanie and Myron Jackson
February 10
This event is in person, and offered live via Zoom and YouTube.
In person: Reception starts at 5:30 p.m., event starts at 6:00 p.m. Limited to 40 people. Must show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 at the door for entry. Must RSVP in advance by emailing [email protected]. Event at the meeting room in the Old Paint Factory building, 1300 E. 6th Street, Little Rock.
You can register for Zoom by clicking the button below. Zoom presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
YouTube Live: You can watch via YouTube Live here. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
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What to Look for When Purchasing a Historic Property by Justin Elbert
March 10
This event is in person, and offered live via Zoom and YouTube.
In person: Reception starts at 5:30 p.m., event starts at 6:00 p.m. Limited to 40 people. Must show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 at the door for entry. Must RSVP in advance by emailing [email protected]. Event at the meeting room in the Old Paint Factory building, 1300 E. 6th Street, Little Rock.
You can register for Zoom by clicking the button below. Zoom presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
YouTube Live: You can watch via YouTube Live here. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.
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QQA Cheryl Griffith Nichols Historic Building Marker Program Special Opportunity for 2022
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For 2022 the QQA Board of Directors has authorized a payment of $10,000 from the QQA's endowment to cut the price of the markers in half. The markers originally cost $930 for a pole-mounted marker and $750 for a wall-mounted marker, including installation. This year, the price will be $465 for the pole-mounted marker and $375 for the wall-mounted markers. The QQA will award as many markers as possible until the $10,000 is exhausted.
The new markers will be awarded at the QQA Annual Membership Meeting, scheduled for November 2.
You can find out more about the program by clicking the button below.
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Tour of Homes Returns to Mother's Day Weekend for 2022! |
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QQA 2022
Tour of Homes
Governor's Mansion Historic District
May 7-8, 2022
Stay tuned for more information!
Interested in sponsorship opportunities?
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Remembering Muriel Stuck McCord |
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Long-time QQA supporter, volunteer, and board member Muriel Stuck McCord (known as “Mu” or “Moo” to her family and friends), passed away in North Little Rock on Saturday November 13.
Born in White Plains, New York in 1929, Muriel started her adult life at Randolph-Macon college. After a trip to Fayetteville with friends, she met a journalism student named Robert McCord. Muriel transferred to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and they married in 1951. After Fayetteville, Robert joined the army and they lived in Oklahoma and New York. After Robert finished graduate school, they returned to North Little Rock where he had been raised. Robert bought the North Little Rock Times in 1958, and the couple worked there together.
In addition to her journalism, Muriel was a talented fundraiser for several organizations in Central Arkansas, including the Arkansas Arts Center (Now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts), the Junior League, the Symphony Guild, Wildwood, and the Quapaw Quarter Association (just to name a few of her causes).
Muriel became active in the QQA in the earliest days of the organization. In 1989, when she retired from a board position, she said she’d been working with group “around 20 years.” Her largest strength as a volunteer and board member was her ability to raise money. In a short bio published in a 1985 announcement of her nomination to the QQA board, she was described as “widely acclaimed for her work as donations chairman for two QQA tours.” She was also instrumental in a 1986 corporate partnership drive, in which she helped raise the level of QQA corporate partners from 37 to 83. She also worked as Vice President of Membership and won the 1988 Peg Smith Award for her work.
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Above story is a farewell to Muriel upon her QQA board retirement in 1989, published in the QQA Chronicle, October-November 1989. |
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