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DESCRIBE TH E PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARA?JCE 1 Constructed in t h e 1880'3, the Terry-Jug Hause is deceptively staid. While the overall impression dispensed by the structure is one of r e s t r a in t and stately grace, a closer examination reveals a h o s t of decorative details--a characteristic of the Queen Anne s ty l e which has prompted one author to w r i t e that the Queen Anne houses of Victorian American w e r e meant to be v iewed through a microscope rather than a telescoge . Bold ly j u t t i n g from the second floor of the east wing of the Terry-Jung house is a bracket-supported, gabled dormer h o d . The apex of the gable is fill& w i t h jigsaw t r h , forming a semi-elliptical arch w i t 3 cut- tr im in the spandrels. A pendant drops from the cornice. Beneath the dormer h o d are windows which display co lo rd patterns in the panes of the upper sashes. Resting below the dormer-hood-r.rindaw configuration is a typical Queen Anne bay window, sport ing a hip2ed b n n e t .

More interest ing details a r e to be found on the porch, which featwres Dravidian posts, an importation from India, refleeting the eclectic nature of t h e structure, and spindles in the balustrade t h a t closely resemble the legs of furniture. Scroll&, east-iron, a t t i c vents cover

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openings on the main frieze of the house and corner boards f l a t t e n in t a interesting patterns at their tips near the cornices.

>.: Despite its exuberant decorative features, the main design of the Terry- Jung house follows a conservative plan. The massing 05 the two-storey house forms an e l l , but an extcud& corner indents the east facade. The siding is clapboard. n porch bends its way around the east and nor th elevations on the first-storey level. The porch features a balustrade, posts and brackets, a box cornice, and a low, truncated, hipped roof w i t h overhanging eaves. Shelter& under the porch is a double-leaf doorway, compasd of lights above the double panels of the doors and cappd with a f lush-l ight transom. The windows, throughout the house, exhibi t uniform height, but vary in grouping and dimensions of width. The pane n W e r also tends to wary w i t h t h e individual window. Boxed cornices surround the upper sections of t h e building, and the roof f o l l o w s an irregular pa t te rn , using gabld and truncated-hipped components. Several ancillaxy structures are attache3 to the rear (east elevation) of the house.

Tne only known alterations to the structure are that the t w o exterior chimneys Ithe on ly chimneys) on the south s ide of the hcuse have had the i r sections a b v e roof level removed and that the roof c r e s t i n g , w5ich once crowned the home, has been taken down.

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plaster was removed f r o m the walls and was replaced by sheetrock. A downstairs bedroom was paneled, and one fireplace mantel was stripped of its Vic to r i an embellishments in oxder to expose the natural f in i sh .

However , most of the or ig ina l interior moldings remain, and one mantel- piecz survives intact. mt_iermore, renovations made by the present owners have included accurate res torat ions of the dawnstairs bedroam c e i l i n g and ' t h e o r i g ina l s-irway. More work on the upstairs rooms is p l a n n d .

The Terry-Junq House is set in the m i d s t of Little Rock's historic Quapaw Q u a t e r . There old streets, l ined with aged t rees , retain much of the atmosphere of nineteenth-century America. The house, itself, maintains a well-preserved exterior and grounds. The i n t e r io r has undergolle some major alterations, but t h e fact remains t h a t the Terry- Jung house is a f i ne example of a subdued form of Queen Anne architecture placed in its appropriate s e t t i n g *

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2-m-fold significance attaches i tself to t h e Terry-Jung House. F i r s t it is an important example of the l a t e r , and subdued, phase of Queen -ne architecture. P x f i secondly, it served as the home of William Leake Terry , perhaps Little Rock's best known lawyer of the later part of the 19th century and a po l i t i c i an whose success carried him from c i t y goverrment to state and, eventually, national office.

Erchitecturally, the Terry-Jung House is a taste-hl combination of conservative massing and design w i t h eclectic and f a i c i f u l decorative detail. The two-storey, wooden-frame house assumes a basic L-shape, broken only by an extruded corner on t h e f r o n t [eastern) facade and by service attachments on t 3 e rear (west) alevation. A balustrzded porch, supported by Dravidian posts, bends around the east and n o r t h elevations. The double-leaf doorway is enhanced w i t h lights over dou5le panels and is crowned by a trabeated transom. A 1 1 w i n d o w s are square in shape, are of uniform height a d vary only in wfd th , arrangement, and the number of panes included in each sash. ~ m f i n g is varied; the porch roof and sections of the u2per roof are low-hipped and truncated, while t h e remainder of the upper roof is gabled.

The relatively simple and c m o n superstructure a£ the house is enhanced with several exotic details. A bracket-supported domes hood, which displays a picturesque variety of jigsaw trim in its apex, juts forth over t h e secmd floor windows on the east elevation. R typical Queene Anne bay window, spor t ing a hipped bonnet, a l s o protrudes f r o m the f r o n t (east) elevation. O t h e r interesting features include: Dravidian posts sustaining the porch rwf; p r c h balustrade spindles which closely resemble f u r n i t u r e legs; scrolled cast-iron attic vents on the main frieze of the house; and corner b a r d s that flatten to form curious patterns at t he i r t i p s near the cornice. Alterations to the e x t a i o r are m h i m a l , being only the removal of t h e chimqeq. tops and of the cres t ing f r o m t h e roof.

The i n t e r i o r , however, has suffered much m o r e greviously. Eut recen t ly , the present owners have embarked upon a r e n o ~ a t i o n program aimed at the adaptive restoration of t h e house, While t h ~ t interior will be modernized for convenience and accordinq to the a e s t h e t l c tastes of the owners, oriqinal features suzh as the rom la>*oi~t, moldings, c e i l i n g s , and one mantelpiece will be maintained in their original form.

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No exact date can be given for the erect ion of the Terry-Jung muse; nor is the.name of the architect or builder known. What cari be ascertained 5s that the original owners, M r . and Mrs. William Leake Terry, bought t w o undevelo~ed property lo ts on the corner of Scott and 15th ( then Woodruff) Streets in 1878.

Tax assessment recards show that t h i s property was i n t e n s e l y developed early in t h e 1880% indicating this to be the prokble date of const ruct ion for the Terry-Jung House which mrren t ly occupies the site. A tax assess- ment made in 1957 estimated the age of the house to be seventy-five years.

A native of N o r t h Carolina, W i l l i a m Leake Terry, came to =kansas in 1861, when he was eleven years old. H i s parents were both dead by 1865, so ;:iilliam became the ward of his uncle, COP. Francis A. Terry, under whose caxe he received an edccation at T r i n i t y College in Randolph County, Arkansas. The fact that in 1872, T a r y graduated with the highest honors eves a t t a i n d at the m L 1 school was an auspicious i n d i c a t i o n of the man's talents. In 3873 Terry was admitted to the Axkansas bar. Thereafter, his legal and p o l i t i c a l careers advanced with dream-like rapidity.

He sat on the Little Rock City Council in 1877. One year later he w a s elected to the Arkanas Senate, where in 1879 he was voted Senator Protem. A l s o in 1879, Terry became Little Rock's C i t y Attorney, a position he was to hold u n t i l 1885. The Roxnance of the C i t y of the Roses, a brochure released in 1886, promoting L i t t l e Rock. presents Terry as Little Rockts most out- standing lawyer. Washington, D. C. becane Terry's d e s t i n a t i o n after he was elected Conqressman from the Fifth Arkansas Congressional D i s t r i c t in 1892. He was voted i n t o the House for five consecutive terms, and he became the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Acting through the ~ u d i c i a r y Comit tee , Terry was an in f luent ia l force behind the reform of the various United S t a t e s Courts, and he was instrumental in the formulation of l a w s for the Indian Ter r i to ry ,

Terry w a s t w i c e marr ied , but he had outlived 330th of his w i v e s when he died in 1927.

Joseph Jung, owner of the Rose City Bakery, purchased t h e house a f t e r Terry's dezth. For over half a century t h e well-maintained house served as a residence for numerous m e m b e r s of the Jung family. In 1972 the buildinq w a s bought by Porter Briggs, WIT has since entnrked upon a plan ca l l ing for thz adaptive restorat ion of the interior.

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The Terry-Jung House is a well-preserve2 and deserving example of sub- dued, Queene Anne arch i tec ture and is thus a vivid reminder of an era in L i t t l e Rock's history. I t s in i t ia l owner, William Leake Terry, was one of L i t t l e Rock" most prominent lawyers and politicians of the l a t t e r p a r t of the nineteenth century. These merits give to the house both an architectusdl and an historical significance for Little Rock and central Arkansas.