Landmark Preservation Consulting

PASSMORE HOUSE

The owners and developers of The Passmore House have commissioned LPC to conduct preservation consulting services for the preservation and rehabilitation of the circa 1873 Dr. William Pauldin Passmore House located along Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Preservation consulting services include: consultation with the owners, architect and engineer, extensive archival research, as well as state and federal preservation tax credit applications.

Dr. William Pauldin Passmore, a former Union Army surgeon, became one of Hot Springs’s most successful druggists after the Civil War, operating multiple drugstores during an economic boom between 1870 and 1890. In 1873, he built the Passmore House on Park Avenue, then the city’s most prestigious residential area. The house remains one of the oldest and most iconic Second Empire residences in Arkansas. Its interior featured a paneled dining room with a painted dome ceiling that originally incorporated a stained-glass skylight and unusual built-in ice boxes in second-floor bedrooms, gifted to the family by the wife of another leading physician. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 under the ownership of Passmore’s granddaughter, Wilhelmina Lea, a prominent community member and county historical society founder.