The Baker House is a beautiful Queen Anne Victorian home built in 1898-1899 by a Watch Repairman, A. E. (Artemas) Colburn. For the next fifteen years the Baker House greeted travelers, mainly railroad workers, as a boarding house. The home was purchased by the former superintendent of the local schools, and pawn broker, C. J. (Cadmus) Baker. The house would remain in the Baker family until 1977. Located on the corner of Fifth and Main Streets in downtown North Little Rock 's Historic Argenta District, the house was placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1978.

Local legend incorrectly claims that Colburn was a black man who achieved wealth as a jockey in England and returned to the United States to build his retirement home in Argentina (An early name for North Little Rock ). Further, legend holds that Mr. Colburn mysteriously disappeared soon after the grand home's construction; and that he had been strongly discouraged from living in his new house because of his race.

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 We were allowed to stay in the house for the purpose of revealing the truth behind many rumors of paranormal activities. We had hoped to witness the moving of the buffet in the ornate dining room, see the window open in an upstairs bedroom or see the apparition that roams the central stairway. With all of our equipment in place, we began our investigation. Although we did not witness the previously mentioned activities, we did see and feel the spirits of the house. We logged at least two separate entities. One was a young girl that apparently died of a respiratory illness in one of the upstairs bedrooms and the other a man that died in the house of an unknown cause. This entity complained of a severe pain in his back. Our investigation ended and we concluded that indeed there are ghosts residing in the Baker House.

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Investigation Conducted in Conjunction with
Central Arkansas Society for Paranormal Research