Parnell Springs Resort Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MC 776

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Scope and Content Note

Photographs of the Hotel Edna and pavilion, Parnell Springs, Arkansas. The photographs are all 6" x 8" black and white prints mounted on 9" x 11" cards with a decorative border, embossed "Reynolds, Warren, Ark." There are 35mm negatives of all photographs.

Dates

ca 1906

Creator

Parnell Springs Resort (Ark.) (Organization)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply. No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Parnell Springs was originally owned by Joseph Parnell and was a popular watering place as early as the 1880s. The springs were later owned by W. L. Kennedy (who built on to the Parnell log house to make the Kennedy Hotel about 1888), Robert Wells (who tore down the log house/hotel to build the new Wells Hotel, as well as the Wells Pavilion over the springs, 1893-1898), the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1898-1903), J. A. Smith (who added a second story and renamed the hotel in honor of his daughter, Edna), and finally, in 1906, the Southern Lumber Company of Warren, Arkansas. After nearly twenty years of operation under the Southern Lumber Company, the resort declined and the hotel and pavilion were torn down.