Unlted States Depament of the Interior National Park Service

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,~tional Register of Historic Places Registration Form TMs tMm Is for rn ln nominating or reqwrsting dmmlnallons at elqikility lor individual pmpenles or disirids. See instmctbns in W N m s fiw Corn- hletiwrel Reglstw Fwms (National Register Bullern 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering Me rwuested infomralmn. If an iterndoes rwn apply lo Ihe M n g documented, enter "NIA" for "not app8cable." For functions, styres, materials, and areas of significance, enlsr only the categories end sukategories l~sied in the ~nstruct~ons. For aclditlonal space use continualion sheds (Form 10.9008). Type all entries.

I. Name of Property h~stor~c name B m & i d ~ Build- other namestsite number Scott % Spartment s tore

street & number West Second Street [g n d for publicatton N/A city, t o m H Q ~ - U v~cinity ??/A state A r k a s code AR county HemD~tead code AR-057 zip c d e 71801

3. Clwslficatlon Ownership of Property Calegory of Property Number of Resources within Property

private building(s) Contributing Namtrlbvttng 0 publ~c-tocal 10 district 1 buildings r] publc-State s~ts sctes [7 publrc-FMsral structure structures

object objects 1 Total

me of dated multipFe propetty Iiting: Number of contributing resources previously M / A listed In the National Register N/A

4, State/Federal Agency Certlflcation

As the designated authority under the Matianal Historic Preserralion Act of 1966. as amended. I hereby certify t h ~ ? this nomrnat~on request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for qisterilng properties in the

National Register of Hrstorie Places and meets the procedural and professronal requirements set forth in 36 CFR P&fl 60. not meet the National Register criteria. See continuation sheet.

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Slate or Federal agency and bureau

In my opinion, the property a m e e l s mdoes not meel the National Register criteria. O s e e comlnuatlon sheet

Signature of commming or other official Date

I aare w Federal aqencv and bureau I

5. National Park Sewlce Certification I. hereby, certljr that this property IS

entered in the National Register. Q SH continuatbn sheet.

mdeterrnlrved eligible fw the National Register. a See conhuntion sheel.

'?]determined not eligible for the Netional Register.

retnwed from the Nationaf Register. other, (explain:)

Signature d t b Keeper Date of Actlon

6 , - W H~szor~c ~unctrans (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructioni)

COX%RCE/k-nartment Store VACANTJNoT LN USE

Ar~hllectural CEassific8tion Materials (enter categories from instructions)

foundation Brick ~ t r s Brick

roof other n~

Dexribe present and htstoric physical appearance.

LDnRrd 8trtar Deprrtrnmnt of thm Intarlor Y atlonal Park Setvlce

National Reglster of Hlaorlc Places Contlnuatlon Sheet

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Summary

The B d d g e Building is a rwo-and+nshalf stmy, mcmd brick, paw wall commercial stwefront building with a brick parapet front. It is designed in the Romanesque Revival style and displays m abundance of R o m u e detail. It is lowed in Ihe h e m of Hope's commercial district

The Brundidge Building is a two-andaehdf story, mcplrral brick, pmy waLl c m m e u mrehnt building with a flat mf set behind a brick parapet front. It is designed in b e Romanesque Revival styIe armd displays an abundance of Rornanesque &tad. Its plan is basically rectangular and the exterior finishes of the first floor storefront have k e n covered recently with decarative oeramic tile. It is covered w i h a built-up rar roof and strpplrrted upon a continuous brick foundation.

The northern or h t facade is divided into four principle bays. The bay to the east and the second bay in from the east are very similar and relatively unadorned. Each is lighted on the second floor with a group of three vettical, doublehung w d w h windows set into a w m d frame wid^ small, fmed windows at the cop. Thm windows are set into the wall with stone sills and lintels. Three hotizonlal fixed w d windows are placed into

I the upper half-story directly above the vertical windows below. h bank of windows is also at in between stone + sills and lintels. The m n d story window groups are decorated above with a set of three bIind arches which

project slightly h m the brick wall. The second bay h m the east projects siighcly frwn the facade behind and is omammted at its mter mmm with shtn comer mlles with stone detail at thc top and bzrorn. It is lighred by a large r e n d group of three one-over-one wmd sash windows, although the central opening is wider the those flanking i t The above this window i s ornamented with a bad, blind arch, and another group of three decorative arches ser inm he parapet ah*. The tops of all duee of these bays are finished with decorative none coping and finished with carved stone ball ornaments. The western bay falures a gable roof, a Palladian window in h e gable and a p u p d three mwver-one wood sash windows in the second stary below.

TM ;cPouthm or war elmtion is now pumlmld only by a centml sliding door flanked by two oneover-one w d windows; original window openings to-the east and wesf have been filled.

Unlted Stetec Depmflrnsnt of the 'Intrrlor Natlonal Park Service

<.Jatlonal Reglster of Hlstorlc Places . Contlnuatlon Sheet

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The Brundidge Building, consmcred c. 1893 md designed in tk R m m q n e Revival styIe, is both the best example in downtown Hop of a high-style R u n m q u e Revival commercial building and an unusual application of a typically textural and three4imensional aeslhetic to rhe demands of an urban, party wall s m e h n t structure - - a relatively wedimensional buildrng type.

Elaboration

The city of Hope, Arkansas was platted in 1873 by Chief Eagineer Motley of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. The city was named for the daughter of Major Lwghhugh, a diretor of the C. & F. Railsoad The activity and ~ulement encorvaged by the milrmd proceeded q i d l y enough for the city to become incmpmed by 1875 and for the first municipl elections to k held thas same year. Hope was later selected as the terminns for the Arkansas and Louisiana R a i h d dso, which only served to increase its importance as a southwest Arkansas commercial center. Goodspeeds manis hat by 1890 Hope could boast of a business district "...nearly all bull up wilh one and two mr). h c k buddings ..." and a population of approximately 1300.

The lot on which th Bnmdidge BuiIding sks was purchased in Febnraty of 1892 by JP. Bmdidge. The tax asmmenz records for 1893 hdica~ that this budding was constructed by then, as the valuation increased in one year from 5 1,000 to $8,000,

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The tax records a h reveal that Dr. KG. McRae, Bmdidge's father-in-law, was part owner. 'Ihough little infomaion d y e s regarding Bmdidge, Dr. McRae was a medical doctor and Confedemre veteran who had immipted to Mt. Hotly, Union County, from Abbama before the Civil Wa and who resumed his rnerllcal practice there until 1886 when he relmred to Hope. He conhued his mdcall p u c e in the Hope area and also k a m e involved In a variety of other business enmpks. He died in 1904, but thiE bailding remained in the Bmhdge f d y estate until purchased by the present ownw in 1978.

Until recently the Brundidge Building had housed retail activities on its main, s t m b m ?eve! (Sco#'s Dtpartment Store}; and yet, though i t is likely hat it housed similar enlerprises originally, Iittle reliable infomation has come down to us. ?he use of the upper stories has been bctter docmenled. At l e . part of fhe upper a m was used as a rooming house in the early twentieth mntury. hkr, the second stmy served as 3 meeting hall for the Fraternal Order of Elks.

The names of the archim c r a f m or builder who were involved in the cmsmction of the Bmdidge Bdding have n& survived Nevertheless, the lapplication and handling of che Rommque Revival elements on the main facade indicate a familiarity with design if not formal mining. The gmupsd b h d arches which articulate the upper wdh combined with the Squim-heacM vertical windows reveal a f a m i k i t y with the work of H.H. Richardson and his imitators, M y in his last, primarily mban midential designs did Richatdson bgin to flatfen the Ramanesqwl detail for which he was mown. However, by the 1890's his imitators around h e cornby began subtracting fm this style the Iltrree-dimensionaliry of both composition and detail whch had gven such weight and presence to such &signs as ha for the Marshal Field WholesaEe Store in Chicago of 1885-87. This trend is clearly reflected in the handling of k forms and details in the Bmdidge Building facade. The bay which projecb to the earn barely pmmdes itr all h m the wall behind md is h e d by two sather delicate wd deal turelIes which retain an elegance and style of their own but which am rather different than Rornanesque designs which were popular just ten, years grevious.

It hiis been noted lhat lhis ttend toward W n i n g principle elements and &tails was common to most of the Z

popular styles in the last decade of the nineteenth century and that this may have been zncwraged by h e gmwing influence of the Classical Revival and its emphasis upon syrnmery and balance in semice to b e design of grand,

Unltad State8 Dapartrnmnt of the Intarlor Natlonal Park Servlce

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formal d5ce.s which borowed none of the eaahbmd massiveness and hnk expression of mamiah consided typical of medieval archi2ecW styles. Whakver the som, this trend certainly innuenced the popular interpimaions of the Romanesque style during this period just bfore 1900 and the Brundidge Building stands as the finest corn& example of this mnd in Hope.

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service

- National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet

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Gwdpds'Hiaorv of Southern Arkansas, (1890).

Jarrard John D., National ReRister Nomination for the W * s Dmmmerit SmIBillls W a r S m Building, May 2, 1939, on fle at the Arkansas Humric Freservdon Program.

Tax Records, Hempslertd County, H e m p d County Cowhouse, Hope.

Unltd 8trtr8 DepaRmrnt of the Interlor N8tlonal Park Service

Nstional Regleter of Hlstorlc Places Contlnuetlon Sheet

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Verbal Boundan Description

The southern half of Lot 1 and the northern half of Lots 15 and 16, Block 37, City of Hope, Arkansas.

8., Statement d S tce Certrfying official has constoered the slgnificancs of this property In relation to other properties:

[3 nationally statewide bf31 localry

&opticable National Aegisler ClfterFa IA Q 0 L)Tj c D

driterla Conslderatims (Exceptions) A B ~ I C D E [ 7 ~ DG

h a s of Signtficance (enter categories lrwn irt9trudions) Architecture

PerM of Sbnificance Slgnnicant Dates

Cultural AfRliatlon

Significant Penon Arehhec?#uilder J / A Unhm

State slgntficance of pmpedy, and justify criteria, wlteria mnsider&tlons, and mreas end periods of s)gnlfbmca mtbd above.

Previous documentation on Ale (NPS): Q preliminary determination of individual tisting (36 CFR 67)

- has been requested U - previously listed in the National Register

previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark -

U recorded by Historic American Buildings survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering

1 See continuation sheet

Primary location of additional data: State historic preservation office Other State agency Fsdsrai agency Local government University Other

Specify repository: Record #

10. Geographical Data Acreage of property Less than m e

UTM References A L L 3 bL4da9d -

Zone Easting Northing B W u u

Zone Easting Northing

D W u u See continuation sheet

Verbal Boundarj Description

Part of lnts 1, 15 and 16, Bloclc 37, City of Hope, Arkansas

see continuation sheet

Boundary Justification

This boundary includes a l l the property historically associated with this resource.

fl See continuation sheet

1 1. Fwm Prepared By nnmeltitle Kenneth Story, Architectural Historian organization Arkansas HIS t oric Preservation P r o ~ r a m date February 2. 1990 street & number 27.3 Em Mar&

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