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H. L. Stroud Dry Goods Store

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1898. 114 W. Walnut St.
  • (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, A Division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Ralph Wilcox, photographer)

Rogers was a small village until the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (the Frisco) came through in 1881 and made it a stop. Among the entrepreneurs who moved in was H. L. Stroud, who established a dry goods store here, adding it to his chain that was founded in Kansas City, Missouri. It was Walnut Street’s largest commercial building. Although the ground story has been modernized with large plate glass windows, the Italianate design of the upper facade, with its tall windows united by a continuous stringcourse, remains unaltered. The decorative pressed metal cornice was an economical means of enriching a facade in the period.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors
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What's Nearby

Old American National Bank
Rogers Little Theater (Victory Theater)
Dollar Saver Store (Rogers Wholesale Grocery Co.)
Harris Baking Company Office Building
Historic Lane Hotel

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "H. L. Stroud Dry Goods Store", [Rogers, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-BN17.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 33-33.

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