Built in 1962 to house the Fayetteville, Arkansas, Public Library, the Fulbright Building sits in a leafy residential neighborhood on the edge of the city’s historic district and to this day is surrounded by Victorian houses and Craftsman-style cottages. “It has always been my favorite building,” says Marlon Blackwell, whose Fayetteville-based practice recently completed the conversion of the library into offices. “It is sleek and classically Modern,” he adds, pointing to the way it ever-so-slightly floats above the gently rolling terrain in the front and reveals its two-story height in the back. Designed by Fayetteville native Warren Segraves, a contemporary of E. Fay Jones with a more Meisian sensibility (on whom Blackwell is currently writing a book), the building—which was expanded in 1970 and again in 1992—epitomizes the architect’s idiom of expressed structures, universal grids, and flat roofs.
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