Fred W. Parris Towers

	Fred W. Parris Towers
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Location	1800 S. Broadway St., Little Rock, Arkansas
Coordinates	34°43′53″N 92°16′43″W / 34.73139°N 92.27861°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1971
Architect	Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson
Architectural style	International Style
NRHP reference No.	100000707
Added to NRHP	April 13, 2017

The Fred W. Parris Tower is a residential apartment highrise at 1800 South Broadway Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1972, it is a fourteen-story skyscraper, with a steel frame clad in masonry, housing 253 residential units. It was designed by Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson for the city as public senior housing, and exemplifies a design principle espoused by Le Corbusier known as the "tower in the field", with a large landscaped green area surrounding the building.^[2]

The apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Fred W. Parris Towers" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2017-11-08.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Fred W. Parris Towers" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2017-11-08.

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