March 20, 1900

Architect George Francis Trapp was born in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1914, and his interest in architecture might have been inspired by some of the new tall buildings in Little Rock, such as the seven-story, steel-framed Southern Trust Building, now known as Pyramid Place, and the eleven-story State Bank Building, now known as the Boyle Building—both of which had been designed by George R. Mann. Two qualities consistent throughout Trapp’s career were sensitivity to siting (judging how a building’s design and material related to the site) and boldness in setting shapes against each other.