Flatirons, continued: Just another ‘80s building in Arkansas

As I acknowledged earlier this summer, I’m a sucker for buildings with three sides – flatirons, they’re called. And now I’ve come across another one. It’s in Eureka Springs, Ark., a tourist town in the Ozarks that I passed through on a recent assignment.

As a plaque explains, it’s a born-again flatiron: It was built as a bank in 1880, when Eureka Springs was being born as a vacation destination with natural spring water. It burned down in 1890 and was rebuilt and held a saloon for a while.

It burned yet again in the 1920s. For all its Victorian trappings, the current building didn’t go up until 1989. The shops downstairs sell folk art and quilts.