Building a History

Book signing with architects blueprint for popular event

Who'd've thunk the most popular post-Riverfest show downtown would be a book signing for Architects of Little Rock: 1833-1950 at Historic Arkansas Museum? It was a madhouse, and Charles Witsell and Gordon Wittenberg were the architects.

The 120-seat Ottenheimer Theater had exactly three free seats, which was made all the more mysterious and memorable because folks lined the aisles and bunched up in back like overpasses and on-ramps to a parking lot.

Several architects including John Greer with WER Architects/Planners and Tom Adams with Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson offered kind words for the two firms' principals cum authors. Wesley Walls of Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects presented the two with recognition (framed resolutions) from the American Institute of Architecture Arkansas chapter.

The 138-page miscellany of noteworthy Little Rock architects -- or architects who did noteworthy projects in Little Rock -- is a joint publishing effort by the University of Arkansas Press and the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and can be viewed and bought at UAPress.com (click "Announcing the Spring 2014 titles!").

-- Story and photos by Bobby Ampezzan

High Profile on 06/08/2014

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