THE NAMESAKE HOUSE FOR GREENING STREET AND THE OLDEST SURVIVING HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE GREENING HOUSE WAS COMPLETED FOR ELDRIDGE GREENING, A TURN OF THE CENTURY COTTON BUYER.
FROM 1919 UNTIL THE 1950'S IT SERVED AS THE PARSONAGE FOR THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
THE HOUSE REFLECTS AN AUSTERE VERSION OF QUEEN ANNE STYLE, FEATURING A HIPPED ROOF WITH INTERSECTING GABLES, BELT COURSES GIRDING THE EXTERIOR WALL, FISHSCALE SHINGLES IN THE APEX OF THE FRONT GABLE, AND A BAY PROJECTION ON THE WEST SIDE. ( RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION IS THE WORK OF CURRENT RESIDENTS, JOHN AND KAREN COONS.)
THE JOHN HOBSON PARKER HOUSE (C. 1902) REFLECTS QUEEN ANNE FEATURES IN ROOFLINES, BAY PROJECTION AND PORCH ORNAMENTATION. JOHN HOBSON PARKER SERVED AS OUACHITA COUNTY CLERK FROM 1908 TIL 1910. HE WAS THEN ELECTED SHERIFF OF OUACHITA COUNTY AND SERVED FROM 1910 UNTIL HE RESIGNED IN 1914 TO TAKE AN APPOINTMENT BY WOODROW WILSON TO BE A UNITED STATES MARSHALL FOR THE FT. SMITH TERRITORY.
( INITIAL RECOVERY WAS NURTURED BY MR. AND MRS. HERBERT GARNER AND CURRENT RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION BY BILL AND CAROL HAWKINS)
BUILT EARLY IN THE CENTURY( AT SOME TIME BEFORE 1907), THE PHILLIPS-PETERS HOME, DESPITE THE REMOVAL OF ORIGINAL WOOD ORNAMENT PORCH DETAIL, REFLECTS QUEEN ANNE TREND AND FEATURES BRACKETS ON THE FRONT GABLE. NOTE THE DETAIL( ADDED LATER) IN THE STAIRWAY AT THE SIDEWALK AND ONE OF THE FEW OLD HITCHING POSTS REMAINING IN TOWN- MOST OF THEM IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. (BOYHOOD HOME OF PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS, MR. JOHN PHILLIPS, THE HOME IN RECENT DECADES HAS BEEN OWNED AND OCCUPIED BY THE LLOYD PETERS FAMILY)
