Fred W. Parris Towers | |
Location: | 1800 S. Broadway St., Little Rock, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 34.7314°N -92.2786°W |
Architect: | Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson |
Architecture: | International Style |
Added: | April 13, 2017 |
Area: | 3acres |
Refnum: | 100000707 |
The Fred W. Parris Tower is a residential apartment highrise at 1800 South Broadway Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1972, it is a fourteen-story skyscraper, with a steel frame clad in masonry, housing 253 residential units. It was designed by Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson for the city as public senior housing, and exemplifies a design principle espoused by Le Corbusier known as the "tower in the field", with a large landscaped green area surrounding the building.[1]
The apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.