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Local Attorneys Moving Into Historic Building
The Jonesboro Sun, December 5, 2007
By Mark Randall
JONESBORO — Michael Crawley Jr. used to live in the Hillcrest neighborhood west of downtown Little Rock and loved the turn-of-the-century architecture of the homes and cottages.
So he was thrilled to buy the historic Sundial Place building on the corner of Washington Avenue and Flint Street in downtown Jonesboro for his law firm office.
It is close to downtown and the county courthouse and has the historic feel he was looking for.
“We’re pumped,” Crawley said. “It’s in the area that we want to be in, and the fact that it is on one of the oldest corners in town won’t hurt.”
Crawley, an attorney, plans to move his law firm, Crawley & DeLoache, into the historic property. The firm specializes in bankruptcy and personal injury cases.
Sundial Place was built in 1917 and was a private residence until it was converted into apartments in the early 1960s. It was later bought by United Federal Savings and Loan and turned in to office space in 1984.
“It has a long history and has been home to a lot of stuff,” said developer Kent Arnold, who sold the property. “It’s a very prolific and iconic building.”
The building has also been home to Best Industries and a physical therapist. Larry Clark bought it in 2005 for his appraisal office.
Clark, who worked in the building when it was United Federal Savings and Loan, said Lloyd McCracken named it Sundial Place and oversaw its conversion to a bank. The property has a unique solar heating system in the back, he said.
“It takes the winter sun and heats up the floor which has rock under it,” Clark said. “There is ductwork through the rock to collect the heat and pump it back into the building.”
Clark has always loved the building and is glad to see it will be used again as an office. He was hired by Liberty Bank last year and no longer needs the space, he said.
“I am thrilled to death that somebody who enjoys older buildings is going to use it,” Clark said. “It’s a great old building. It’s going to make a great attorney’s office and has a tremendous amount of parking for a downtown building.”
Crawley said they still have some cleaning and painting to do, but he expects to move into the building in January.
“We’re definitely looking forward to moving in there,” Crawley said. “But since it is the holidays and we all have a bunch of babies, we’re just going to kind of take it slow.”
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