While recent summary judgment motions from both sides indicate that the city of Little Rock and the Terry House heirs are now in consensus that the property should be returned to the heirs, there is still disagreement about whether the city should pay for restoration of the historic mansion and grounds.
Pike-Fletcher-Terry House
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City director takes on bad landlords with Little Rock renters’ rights ordinance
The city board will vote on Director Antwan Phillips’ tenants’ rights ordinance and other resolutions at its meeting next Tuesday.
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Terry House group in talks with UARK architecture school for possible collaboration
The Little Rock city attorney expects to hand the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House back to the heirs. But what happens next?
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The Pike-Fletcher-Terry House may soon return to heirs, attorney says
Regardless of who ends up owning the downtown mansion, Attorney Richard Mays said the heirs would seek damages. He estimated repair costs for the deteriorating property at $2 million.
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The Pike-Fletcher-Terry House remains shuttered as lawsuit creeps along
In 1964, heirs to the house deeded the property to the city of Little Rock. They specified that the house should be used for public benefit as part of the Arkansas Arts Center, now named the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Now the house is locked and deteriorating, and a lawsuit contends conditions of the deed have not been met.
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Terry House group asks the city to get on with it
Terry House Inc., a nonprofit formed earlier this year to protect Little Rock’s Pike-Fletcher-Terry House, has sent a letter to Mayor Frank Scott Jr. and the Little Rock Board of Directors asking them to take “decisive and quick action” to protect the historic mansion.
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A short architectural tour of Little Rock and North Little Rock
Behind closed doors.