The Home Campaign

For more than a century, this house has taken people in.

In 1882, a group of Little Rock citizens founded a home for elderly women with nowhere else to go. The building they raised has been sheltering women and children ever since. We are buying it so its doors stay open.

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The Building

Ada Thompson Memorial Home

The home is named for Ada Thompson Crutchfield, who left a major gift to the organization in honor of her parents. It was built to house women who had run out of options, and in the generations since, this address has gone on sheltering women and children who needed somewhere to go.

It is listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places and stands within the South Main Street Residential Historic District. Buildings like this one rarely come available, and when they do they are usually turned to some other use. This one will go on doing what it has always done — taking in people who need somewhere to go.

Size12,644 square feet
ListedNational Register of Historic Places
LocationSouth Main Street Historic District, Little Rock
StatusUnder contract
Purchase price$190,000

Lower level

Kitchen, dining room, and laundry — the shared spaces where a residential community actually runs. Meals cooked together, chores done together.

Main floor

Bedrooms alongside office and meeting space for staff, counseling, and the daily accountability groups at the center of the program.

Second floor

Additional bedrooms and offices.

Why This Matters

A path back has to start somewhere.

Everything A Prodigal's Path does depends on people living together under one roof — sharing meals, sharing work, holding each other accountable day after day. That is not a service you can deliver from an office. It requires a building.

Fully renovated, this house is large enough to serve up to 70 students at a time. That is 70 students with a bed to sleep in, work to do, and a community that notices when they are struggling.

How to Give

Four ways to help us open the doors

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Contractors, tradesmen, appliances, furniture, and beds are as valuable to this campaign as cash. In-kind gifts are tax-deductible.

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