LITTLE ROCK — Preserve Arkansas, in partnership with architectural historian Mason Toms, will hold its next “Mid Mod Arkansas” tour in Arkansas’s Grand Prairie region next Saturday, April 5. Each year, Preserve Arkansas’s Mid Mod Arkansas tour highlights significant Mid-Century Modern architecture in cities throughout the state to raise awareness and encourage appreciation for these buildings. The 2025 tour will include private homes and churches at Stuttgart, Slovak and Lonoke.
The tour will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 5, with a welcome at the Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie at 921 E. 4th Street in Stuttgart. Attendees will travel independently to hosted tours of the 1968-69 Paul and Ella Buerkle House and the 1955 Holy Rosary Catholic Church, both at Stuttgart. Afterwards, attendees will return to the Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie for a catered lunch sponsored by the Museum and the Grand Prairie Historical Society.
The tour will resume after lunch with visits to the 1961 Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church at Slovak and the 1965 Richard and Johnnie Carolyn Bransford House at Lonoke. The complete tour is expected to last from approximately 10 a.m. to 3 p.m…