Thomas R. McGuire House

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The Thomas R. McGuire House, placed at 114 Rice Street within the Capitol read Historic District of capital of Arkansas, Arkansas, may be a distinctive interpretation of the Colonial Revival kind of design. Designed by Thomas R. McGuire, a master mechanic with the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, it’s the best example of the style of architecture within the turn-of-the-century neighborhood. It’s rendered from handstitched or regionally factory-made materials and is a triumph in concrete block construction. Important for each its design and engineering, the property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on Dec nineteen, 1991.McGuire, then in his mid-20s, started building the property in 1904 at heap four, block four of the recently platted Capitol read addition to the town of capital of Arkansas. Mistreatment his own plans, he nearly singlehandedly erected the whole structure with solely stripped facilitate, most notably with putting in the huge stone header on top of the outside door and construction the A-frames for the roof. On the far side that, McGuire poured the concrete for the bricks from Associate in Nursing vast vat within the grounds. He used clay and molds to create the capitols for the front and facet porches, and he put in the oak woodwork within the structure. He conjointly cut the slate for the roof and therefore the facade.McGuire’s ability with metal-working instrumentation is obvious throughout the house that options handcrafted metal columns on the front and facet porches and 2 handcrafted brass lighting fixtures suspended from the ceiling within the entry antechamber and therefore the feeding area. The walls of the room are lined with metal to shield them from home appliance heat. Before town water became offered to the world, McGuire had puzzled out a system to catch rain running off the roof, channel it through a sand-and-charcoal filter system to a holding tank on the rear construction.

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