7 properties added to register

Seven properties in Arkansas have been newly listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of historically significant properties, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Director Frances McSwain announced Friday.

The properties are:

Hall-Hogan Grocery Store in Conway, a circa 1948 craftsman-style building featuring mixed-masonry rock work by Silas Owens Sr. in a herringbone pattern.

Walnut Grove Cemetery in Cord, established in 1840. Originally holding members of the Hogan, Churchill, Moore, Walden and Jernigan families, later burials also included neighbors from Black River township.

Camp House in Alpin, a 1917 craftsman-style two-story bungalow featuring large brackets, exposed rafter tails and a large bay window. The house is thought to have been purchased as a kit from Sears & Roebuck Co. and shipped by train to Perry, then transported by wagon to Alpin, the Historic Preservation Program said in a news release.

Thomas J. Hankins House in Pelsor, built in 1929, a vernacular example of the craftsman style. The exposed rafter tails and woodwork on the house’s front porch show the style’s popularity and influence even in rural communities.

W.F. and Estelle McWilliams House in El Dorado, built in 1922. The house - which reflects craftsman, classical revival, and Mediterranean revival styles - illustrates the wealth obtained by area residents in the 1920s oil boom, allowing them to have residences designed in the latest architectural styles of the time.

Paul Laurence Dunbar School Neighborhood Historic District in Little Rock, with buildings dating to 1890. Properties in the district exhibit a mix of influences and architectural variants popular during the period.

Southern Trust Building in Little Rock, built in 1906-07. The 10-story, U-shaped office building was the first skyscraper in Arkansas. Its design included fireproofing techniques, steel skeletal construction, electric elevators and lights, and pneumatic mail chutes. It was designed by George R. Mann in the “commercial style.”