Anthony House (Little Rock, Arkansas)

The Anthony House was an upscale hotel on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. It served as the temporary headquarters of the Governor Elisha Baxter during the Brooks-Baxter War in 1874.[1]

It burned to the ground in 1875.[2]

References
  1. Graves, John (1990). Town and Country: Race Relations in an Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865–1905. University of Arkansas Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-68226-138-5. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. Fletcher, John Gould; Carpenter, Lucas (1989). Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-55728-040-4. Retrieved 28 January 2021.

Additional reading
  • Kent, Carolyn. (2012). The Anthony House, a Memorable Little Rock Hotel of the 19th Century. Pulaski County Historical Review 60 (Summer 2012): pp. 42–50.
  • Kent, Carolyn. (2016). Anthony House. Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  • Pope, William F., and Dunbar H. Pope. (1895). Early Days in Arkansas: Being for the Most Part the Personal Recollections of an Old Settler. Little Rock, AR: Fredrick W. Allsopp.
  • Hampton, Roy F., and Witsell, Charles. (1984). How We Lived: Little Rock as an American City. Little Rock, AR: August House.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.