The Aristocrat Motor Inn is a historic hotel building at 240 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a large seven-story structure, with a six-story U-shaped tower set on a basically rectangular ground floor. It is finished in glass, brick, and metal, in the Mid-Century Modern style. The tower is organized around a central courtyard, with the interior facades in a sawtooth pattern to maximize light coming into the hotel rooms facing inward. The hotel was built in 1963 by Samuel Kirsch, a local businessman engaged in a variety of pursuits. It was one of the first hotels built along the city's Central Avenue to feature a Modernist exterior. It was operated as a hotel until 1978, and was after converted into low-income housing.[2]
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| Location | 240 Central Ave., Hot Springs, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 34°30′59″N 93°3′13″W / 34.51639°N 93.05361°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Architectural style | Mid-Century Modern |
| Part of | Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District (ID85001370) |
| NRHP reference No. | 100000552[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | January 24, 2017 |
| Designated CP | June 25, 1985 |
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Hill Wheatley Downtowner Motor Inn" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
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