Featured Project
A Reconstruction of the 1823 William Woodruff Print Shop, Little Rock, ArkansasRuby Architects, Inc. was hired in 2008 to assist the Historic Arkansas Museum, a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, in re-constructing the first home of the state’s earliest newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette. Built by William E. Woodruff, the two story brick print shop was one of Little Rock’s earliest structures, and at the time it was complete, probably one of the City’s finest buildings considering that in 1823, Little Rock was still very much frontier territory and the majority of buildings were log. The building is being constructed as close to original as possible at its original location, near the intersection of Cumberland and Second streets in downtown Little Rock. The site is now the location of the Historic Arkansas Museum, which cares for and interprets some of the City’s oldest remaining buildings.
Owner- Historic Arkansas Museum, Department of Arkansas Heritage
Architect- Ruby Architects, Inc., North Little Rock
Contractor- V.R. Smith & Sons, Little Rock
Architectural Historian- Mark Wenger, Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects, Williamsburg, VA
Building Consultant- Peter Post, Richmond, VA
Masonry Consultant- Ray Cannetti, St. Mary’s City, MD
Project Schedule:
Estimated completion in Summer, 2010.
Credits:
This project is made possible through grants received by the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council. It represents years of hard work and study by senior staff at the Historic Arkansas Museum.
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