a passion for designing places with character

Historic Preservation & Restoration

Our work reflects our beliefs that successful architecture is a collaborative effort involving extensive research and thoughtful crafting, ultimately creating environments that are technically and culturally significant.

“WER was critical in making this project work. Their expertise with historic renovations was obvious. The group working on the plans not only knew where the potential pitfalls of this type of work were, they knew how to preserve the character of this wonderful building while bringing it up not just to code, but to a level of functionality that I would not have imagined possible.”

Wesley E. Stites 
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Arkansas

Complete Project List

Circa 1820s
Arkansas Territorial Restoration* (beginning ca. 1828) 

Circa 1830s
Master Plan for Old Washington Historic State Park* (beginning ca. 1832)
Abraham Block House* (ca. 1832) 
Historic Structure Report, Block-Catts House* (1832) 
McHenry House* (ca. 1833) 
Old State House* (1836) 
Historic Structure Report, 1836 Courthouse* (1836) 
1836 Courthouse* (The Confederate State Capitol) (1836) 
Ficklin-Imboden Log House* (1839) 

Circa 1840s
Pike-Fletcher-Terry House* (1840) 
Curran Hall* (1841) 
U. S. Arsenal Building, MacArthur Park* Historic Structure Report (1841) 
Garrett House* (1842) 
Walker-Stone House* (ca. 1847) 
Michael Bozeman House* (1849) 

Circa 1850s
The Lightfoot Cabin (ca. 1850's) 
Dickinson House* (1850-1880) 
Monroe House* (ca. 1850's) 
Sanders House Outbuildings and Fences (ca. 1850) 
Soulesbury Institute-Glenn House (ca. 1850) 
Augustus Crouch House* (1857) 

Circa 1860s
Barkman House* (1860) 
Historic Structure Report, Barkman House* (1860) 
Lakeport Plantation (1861) 
The "Second" Kadel Cottage (1869) 
The "First" Hotze House (1869) 

Circa 1870s
Trinity Episcopal Church* (1870) 
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1870's) 
Bragg Cottage* (1871) 
1874 Hempstead County Courthouse* (1874) 
Beck House* (1875) 
Commercial Hotel/Melton Building (1876) 
Reichardt Charter House* (1879) 
Turner-Karcher House* (1879) 

Circa 1880s
O'Brien-Worthen House* (1880's) 
Cochran-Pugh House* (1880's) 
Gann House* (1880's) 
Prospectus Development Study, Old Federal Building* (1881) 
Old United States Courthouse* (1881,1897,1910) 
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral* (1884) 
Feasibility Study and Master Plan for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Campus * (1884) 
Cathedral Corporation Houses (ca. 1885 & 1905) 
Freese House* (1885) 
Bein House* (1885) 
Historic Cane Hill College (1886) 
Holtzman-Vinsonhaler House* (1886) 
Handford-Terry House (1886) 
Telephone Exchange Building* (1887) 
Pulaski County Courthouse* Historic Structure Report (1887 and 1911) 
Pulaski County Courthouse* (1887 and 1911) 
Frederick Hanger House* (1889) 

Circa 1890s
Powhatan Male and Female Academy Rehabilitation Study (1890) 
St. Alban's Episcopal Church (ca. 1890's) 
Bathhouse Row* - Hale (1893), Maurice (1912), Superior (1916) and Quapaw (1922) Bathhouses 
Old Post Office* (1894) 
Kramer School* (1895) 
Hemingway House* (1895) 
Historic Structure Report, Arkansas State Capitol* (1899-1915) 

Circa 1900s
Daniel House (ca. 1900) 
Frank House (1900) 
Layton Building* (1901) 
Bunckley-Davis House (ca. 1903) 
Lyon-Caviness House* (1904) 
Gibb House* (1904) 
The "Second" Hotze House* (1904) 
Rosenbaum Building* (1904) 
Washington County Courthouse* Rehabilitation Master Plan (1904)
Little Rock City Hall* (1907) 
Feasibility Study for Rehabilitation of Little Rock City Hall* (1907)
Texarkana Courthouse (1909) 

Circa 1910s
Galloway Building (ca.1910) 
Hamburg United Methodist Church (1910) 
Arkansas State Capitol *(1911) 
Moorhead-Wright House (1911) 
Old Central Fire Station* Feasibility Study (1913) 
Prospectus Development Study, Federal Building and Courthouse, Muskogee, Oklahoma (1913) 
Old Central Fire Station* (1914) 
McDonnell-Hamilton House (1914) 
Philander Smith Cox Administration Building (1915) 
Ben Shaad Machinery (1916) 

Circa 1920s
Old Helena Depot* (1924) 
Delta Cultural Center* Historic Structure Survey (1924) 
Lafayette Hotel* (1925) 
Feasibility Study for Rehabilitation/Additions to Fire Station #10 (1925) 
El Dorado Apartments (1926) 
Central High School (1927) 
Central High School Museum Visitor's Center (1927) 
Albert Pike Hotel Lobby* (1929) 

Circa 1930s
Little Rock Post Office and Courthouse (1932) 
Prospectus Development Study, Little Rock Post Office and Courthouse (1932) 
University of Arkansas Chemistry Building Renovation & Expansion (1935) 
Historic Structure Report, Camp Ouachita* (1937-40) 

Circa 1980s
Washington Post Office (1987)
American Bladesmith School (1987)