place

Baker House (North Little Rock, Arkansas)

Historic district contributing properties in ArkansasHouses completed in 1898Houses in North Little Rock, ArkansasHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in ArkansasNRHP infobox with nocat
National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, ArkansasPulaski County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubsQueen Anne architecture in ArkansasUse mdy dates from August 2023
Baker House, North Little Rock, AR
Baker House, North Little Rock, AR

The Baker House is a historic house at 501 Main Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is an L-shaped structure, 2½ stories in height, with a three-story round tower at the crook of the L. A highly decorated porch is built around the tower, providing access to the entrance. Built in 1898–99, it is one of the few surviving high-style Queen Anne Victorians in the city. It was built by A. E. Colburn, a local contractor, as his private residence, and was purchased in 1916 by C. J. and Annie Baker. Baker was from 1904 to 1906 the superintendent of North Little Rock's schools.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is also listed in the residential section of the Argenta Historic District. The home is now a boutique hotel and Airbnb owned by Stacy and Nathan Hamilton, operated under the name "The Baker". The Baker is a new concept in traveling. They have designer amenities, full service housekeeping, and complimentary minibars, just like full-service hotels. But with private self-check-in, keypad door locks on the rooms, and text responses to every guest request. They offer the privacy of an Airbnb. The Baker 501 Main is a historic icon right on Main Street in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock. Stacy and Nathan Hamilton took the fading historic Baker House Bed and Breakfast and gave it new life for the next generation.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Baker House (North Little Rock, Arkansas) (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Baker House (North Little Rock, Arkansas)
Main Street,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Baker House (North Little Rock, Arkansas)Continue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 34.758333333333 ° E -92.268055555556 °
placeShow on map

Address

The Baker

Main Street 501
72114
Arkansas, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Baker House, North Little Rock, AR
Baker House, North Little Rock, AR
Share experience

Nearby Places

Argenta Historic District
Argenta Historic District

The Argenta Historic District encompasses significant historic elements of central North Little Rock, Arkansas. The area that is now central North Little Rock was known as Argenta when it was first settled, and remained unincorporated until it was annexed to Little Rock in 1890. William Faucette, a leading Argenta politician and businessman, orchestrated the incorporation of North Little Rock just beyond the annexed area in 1901, and then made a successful petition to separate Argenta from Little Rock into the new municipality in 1903. Subsequent attempts to rename North Little Rock to Argenta have failed.The district consists of two discontinuous areas, one commercial and the other residential. The commercial section consists of a three-block stretch of Main Street, between Broadway Street and 6th Street. Three blocks west of this area is the residential area, which is centered on a stretch of Willow Street from 4th to Melrose Circle, that also includes properties on adjoining blocks of cross streets in between. The district was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. In 2002 it was amended to change the status of five buildings to contributing status, as they had undergone appropriate historic restoration work.The commercial section of the district was primarily developed between 1900 and 1940, and includes 18 historically significant buildings, including six that are separately listed on the National Register: North Little Rock City Hall, the former North Little Rock Post Office (now the Argenta Branch Library), the Faucette Building, and the Old Central Fire Station are among them. The residential section includes 177 buildings in total, of which 77 were initially deemed historically significant, including the separately-listed Baker House and Barth-Hempfling House. Many of the non-contributing properties are of an appropriate age, and were only excluded because of the application of inappropriate exterior siding materials and other reversible or restorable alterations. The majority of residential buildings are Craftsman in style, although there are large numbers of vernacular versions of the Colonial Revival present as well.