You are here

Arkansas » Ozarks » Benton County » Rogers » Harris Baking Company Office Building

Harris Baking Company Office Building

-A A +A
1936, Haralson and Mott. 114 W. Elm St.
  • (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, A Division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Ralph Wilcox, photographer)

A small, simple office building, this is the only Moderne design in Rogers. It was also the first office building in Rogers with air conditioning, casement windows, and windows that wrap around its corners, and the bakery (connected to the office) was the first with conveyor belts. Introducing all these firsts was the bakery’s owner, Earl Harris, who bought the Lane Hotel (BN21) in 1935. Originally the flat-roofed building, which is faced in stucco, was capped by a cornice composed of a narrow band of gold leaf, and gold leaf covered the company’s name that marches in raised letters across the facade. The entrance is at the northwest corner of the building.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors
×

Data

What's Nearby

Historic Lane Hotel
Poplar Plaza (Mutual Aid Life Insurance Company)
Old American National Bank
Rogers Little Theater (Victory Theater)
H. L. Stroud Dry Goods Store

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "Harris Baking Company Office Building", [Rogers, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-BN20.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 35-35.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,