This Colonial Revival-style house features a more recent New Orleans-style remodel with a black wrought iron balustrade on the second story porch. The house was constructed between 1921 and 1924. In 1928-29, it was occupied by Isaac and Annie George. He was a physician.

This house is designed in the Colonial Revival style with distinctive paired columns along its front porch. It was built between 1921 and 1924. In 1928-29, it was home to John and Katherine Reeves. John Reeves was partial owner of the B.W. Reeves & Company store mentioned earlier.

The First Christian Church is the only church within the district boundary, and it was constructed in 1947. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring a steeply pitched roof, pointed arch window and door openings, and ornamental buttresses on its side elevations. The church’s rusticated stone exterior makes it stand out in the district.

El Dorado Apartments (NR-listed 1983). Wilson Place

The El Dorado Apartments were constructed in 1926 by James Saye Smith as one of the many multi-family housing units built to handle the rapid population increase following the discovery of oil in 1921. Early oil boom housing consisted of tents, shotgun houses, and boarding houses. But by 1926, the oil business had stabilized and El Dorado was beginning to take on the characteristics of a wealthy town. Recognizing that many wealthy oil men were somewhat transient in nature, Smith’s firm, the Smith Real Estate Co., decided to construct a luxury apartment building. Smith hired Cheshire Peyton, an architect from Louisiana, to design the El Dorado Apartments. The 2-story red brick apartment building features Classical detailing in its dentiled cornice, inlaid limestone panels, and limestone lions’ heads above the front entry. When completed, the building consisted of 24 efficiency apartments and was hailed by the El Dorado Daily News as “ultra-modern luxurious accommodations.” The building had daily maid service, two janitors, and ice delivered twice daily. Most of the early tenants were involved in the oil business.