Hanger Hill Historic District, historic district in Arkansas, United States
Hanger Hill Historic District covers the 1500 block of Welch Street, between 15th and 16th Streets, in Little Rock, Arkansas. It holds nine houses built between 1906 and 1912 in Colonial Revival and Queen Anne Victorian styles, or mixing elements of both, plus a carriage barn left from a property whose main house burned in 1984. Six of the houses are built of rusticated concrete blocks.
The nine houses and carriage barn on Welch Street were built between 1906 and 1912, when the 1500 block was developed as an early 20th-century residential enclave. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The carriage barn survives from a property whose main house burned in 1984.
The name comes from Peter Hanger, who divided the land in 1869 and created the Hanger Addition for the growing neighborhood. The houses show the living choices and architectural tastes of working-class families during the early 1900s in Little Rock.
The district is located on the eastern side of Little Rock along Welch Street and is easy to explore on foot. Most houses are visible from the street and can be viewed from the sidewalk or nearby areas.
The carriage barn on the block is the surviving outbuilding of a property whose main house burned down in 1984, so the district's ten structures include one building that outlasted its house. Six of the nine houses use rusticated concrete blocks, a material that sets them apart from the city's brick and wood homes.
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