I recently got a box of postcards comemorating the work of Arkansas architect Fay Jones and they were so wonderful that I wanted to put a few images of Jones' work online. Jones' contribution to the modern landscape of his home state was significant. He was a student at the University of Arkansas as an undergraduate and through his training in architecture school, eventually becoming a teacher there and the school's first dean of architecture. In addition to his involvement with architecture education in Arkansas, Jones built a number of lovely residences around the state. He passed away in 2004.
In gratitude, the University of Arkansas School of Architecture was renamed the Fay Jones School of Architecture thanks to a gift from Don and Ellen Edmondson, for whom Jones built a home. So here's to an underappreciated mid-century master, and surely the finest the Natural State has produced. Click on the Slideshow button to see a selection of Jones' work.
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This is NOT the Buckley House. This was one of the early spec houses Jones built in Fayetteville in 1954.
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Not sure how to delete all my extra comments. Slide 5 is not the Buckley House; however, slide 6 is the Buckley House.
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My dad and uncle did the rock work on a lot of Fay Jones houses. I think the Buckley house was one of them. I know they did Sam Walton's house (twice) and the Applegate house in Bentonville; they also did the Faubus house in Huntsville.
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This is the house I grew up in. It was built by Dr. Lemon Clark as a spec house. He and Fay didn't agree on several of the design details.
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