Virtual tours of El Dorado houses begin today

Preserve Arkansas will offer free virtual tours of four Mid-Century Modern properties in El Dorado this month on Preserve Arkansas’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

The first video will premiere at 6 p.m. today and will feature the Henley and Riley houses, which are adjacent to each other in the 2500 block of Calion Road.

The houses were designed in 1960 by the late Arkansas architect E. Fay Jones, who spent most of his childhood in El Dorado.

The second video is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday and will highlight the Gilliam-Wilson house, located in the 100 block of Fairway Drive in Country Club Colony, and Dr. Carey Clark house, located in the area of 19th and Forest Lawn

The houses were designed in 1957 and 1960, respectively, by architect Charles Ripley.

Ripley was a contemporary of Jones. Like Jones, Ripley graduated from the University of Arkansas’s architecture program. The program was new when the two architects graduated — Ripley in 1951 and Jones in 1950.

For more information, call Rachel Patton, executive director of Preserve Arkansas, at 501-3724757, send an email to rpatton@preservearkansas.org or visit PreserveArkansas.org.