Curran Hall sits at 615 East Capitol Street in Little Rock, a single-story house from 1842. This single-story house was built in 1842 for Colonel Ebenezer Walters and wears its Greek Revival lines plainly — notice the Doric pilasters flanking the entrance that announce the style. Curran Hall is one of the few remaining antebellum-era landmarks in the city, and its walls have held more than household life.
Before the war it served as the home of pre-Civil war Arkansas Supreme Court Justice George Watkins. After the war Jacob Frolich purchased the house; a fierce opponent of the reconstruction government, he fortified Curran Hall with trap doors and even kept his livestock inside the house at night for safety. Frolich was later indicted for the murder of a reputed informant for the reconstruction government, fled to Canada, then returned and was acquitted; he would go on to become a post-reconstruction Arkansas Secretary of State.
Two auxiliary buildings, constructed about the same time as the main house, were moved and attached to the rear in 1891. The house was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Picture Jacob Frolich hiding trap doors and livestock inside these walls after the war, before fleeing to Canada and returning to serve as Secretary of State.