Arkansas Governor's Mansion - Little Rock, Arkansas
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BruceS
N 34° 43.902 W 092° 16.560
15S E 566281 N 3843528
Governor's mansion for the State of Arkansas in Little Rock.
Waymark Code: WMB5WE
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2011
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"The Arkansas Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the Governor of Arkansas and his family. The mansion is located at 1800 Center Street in Little Rock, and is included in the Governor's Mansion Historic District, a district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Before 1950, Arkansas had never had an official residence for its governor.
During 1947 Act 257 of the Arkansas General Assembly established a Governor's Mansion Commission with an appropriation of $100,000.00. The site was the former location of the Arkansas School for the Blind, which had relocated to new quarters near the city's neighborhood Pulaski Heights. The architects were Frank J. Ginocchio, Jr. and Edwin B. Cromwell.
The architectural style of the mansion is Georgian Revival, colonial type. The main material of the exterior is brick. Construction began during December 1947 (incorporating 300,000 bricks from the original School for the Blind structures), and the Governor's Residence became operational officially on January 10, 1950. The first Governor to reside here was Sidney S. McMath, who occupied the residence in on February 3, 1950. Significant additions to the mansion were completed during the administration of Michael Huckabee.
Mike Huckabee received great publicity when he relocated into a mobile home on the mansion grounds during the renovation. "It's not a trailer. It's a triple wide," Huckabee joked. Huckabee told Jay Leno that the 2,100 square, $110,000 trailer (donated by the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association) "was big enough for your chin." Huckabee said there were substantial cost savings by using the trailer, because the security detail would not have to be relocated to a new rented location.
In addition to its notability as an official state residence, the mansion's exterior has been featured as the exterior of Suzanne Sugarbaker's home for the CBS television series Designing Women. During 2008, stock footage of the mansion was used for the television program 30 Rock to represent the home of a character played by Steve Martin." - Wikipedia
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