Illinois-born Charles L. Thompson was one of the busiest and most versatile architects in Arkansas, beginning his career in the Victorian age in 1891 and finishing in the Art Deco era of 1938. For the town’s new City Hall in 1906 Thompson tapped the Renaissance Revival style, crafted around a richly decorated central rotunda. When the civic building was dedicated on April 15, 1908 the Arkansas Gazette gushed that it was “one of the greatest events of its kind in the history of Little Rock.”
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