OPINION

Fires, facades, and a pop quiz

A crane is used to install a new elevator in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette building in downtown Little Rock, which has been the newspaper’s home since 1930.
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Colin Murphey)
A crane is used to install a new elevator in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette building in downtown Little Rock, which has been the newspaper’s home since 1930. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Colin Murphey)

The veneer from the middle of the 20th century came off the building at 609 Main Street in the spring of 2021. Suddenly, instead of a mauve metal slipcover, a 1950s nightmare in the New International Style, we saw a neoclassical dream in pale brick and limestone.

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