OPINION | HISTORY UNDERFOOT: Hiram Whittington helped make Hot Springs a 19th-century tourist mecca

March 13, 2023 at 10:31 a.m.

by Sonny Rhodes, Special to the Democrat-Gazette

First Presbyterian Church, 213 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs, sits on land donated by Hiram Whittington. The church was designed in 1907 by architect Charles L. Thompson.(Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Sonny Rhodes)
First Presbyterian Church, 213 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs, sits on land donated by Hiram Whittington. The church was designed in 1907 by architect Charles L. Thompson.(Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Sonny Rhodes)

Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a two-part series. Part 1 appeared March 6 in Style, see arkansasonline.com/313part.

Hiram Whittington died in 1890, but his legacy is still very much alive in the northwestern part of Hot Springs.

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