The letters engraved on this neoclassical pediment in an old part of Little Rock read "High School." Do you know where and what the building is?
Hint: Corinthian columns are the most ornate, sleek and slender of the three general types of Greco-Roman-imitating, 20th-century architectural columns, and these are fluted, too. The parts that suggest spiral-eyed monsters sticking out their tongues are intended to represent lush tiers of acanthus leaves and the unfurling of scrolls. The thing in the middle that looks like a burping monster wearing a headlamp is instead a noble device representing something important like knowledge or grandeur. It is unscholarly to imagine anything less.
Hint 2: Readers of the Arkansas Democrat voted to name the building after George Washington.
Think you know? See the answer here.
Style on 11/12/2018