Hart’s on Broad in Texarkana USA
Hart’s on Broad hair salon and gift shop at 223 E, Broad St in Texarkana, AR historic district, was originally a harness company, and has one of Texarkana’s first theaters on their second floor!
Did you know that Hart’s on Broad hair salon and gift shop at 223 E, Broad St in Texarkana, AR historic district, was originally a harness company, and has one of Texarkana’s first theaters on their second floor? To this day there is still the old theater upstairs with a small stage for a band at one end and a full length stage on the end for performers. The adjoining room has four small dressing rooms and a ticket booth.
Built between 1888 & 1899, by Louis Lawson, this two-story building was first known as the Lawson Building. Occupying the street level area with his own business, Edwards Harness Company, he kept Texarkana supplied with harness & tack in the days of wagons and carriage & horses. Other businesses that occupied this building between 1910 till 1951, included a physician’s office, conductors Hall, second floor hosted many social events in the 1900’s, A.O.U.W & I. O.O.F. halls, Lewis Brothers Hardware Store, The Southern Café & Grill in the late 1940’s, and Hart’s Cut Rate Drug Store in 1951.
(History dates and information referenced above was obtained on press reader: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/texarkana-gazette/20050801/281565181063349?srsltid=AfmBOopGcL4inZaB1C47RygzpuMT2Ifuyw_YG1_HyA4dVCg9aJH6cbxC)