First Church of Christ, Scientist | |
Coordinates: | 34.7294°N -92.275°W |
Built: | 1919 |
Architect: | John Parks Almand[1] |
Architecture: | Mission/Spanish Revival |
Added: | October 4, 1984 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 84000008 |
Nrhp Type2: | cp |
Nocat: | yes |
Designated Nrhp Type2: | May 19, 1988 |
Partof: | Governor's Mansion Historic District (1988 enlargement) |
Partof Refnum: | 88000631 |
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, now the Little Rock Community Church, is a historic church building at 2000 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It was built for the local Christian Science congregation, which in 1950 sold it to an Evangelical Methodist congregation. That congregation has since severed its association with the Evangelical Methodist movement, and is now known as the Little Rock Community Church.[2]
It is a single-story Mission style building, designed by noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand and completed in 1919. Characteristics of the Mission style include the low-pitch tile hip roof, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends, and smooth plaster walls. The building also has modest Classical features, found in pilaster capitals and medallions of plaster and terra cotta. The building is local significant for its architecture.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in a 1988 expansion of the Governor's Mansion Historic District.