Bacon Hotel | |
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  Location in Arkansas  Location in United States | |
| Location | Homestead Rd. at jct. with RR tracks, SE corner, Whitehall, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 35°28′48″N90°44′5″W / 35.48000°N 90.73472°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Architect | James Bacon |
| Architectural style | Folk Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 95001437 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 13, 1995 |
The Bacon Hotel, also known as the Sunrise Hotel, is a historic hotel building at the southeast corner of Railroad and Homestead Roads in Whitehall, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof and a two-story porch extending across its front. The porch is supported by spindled wooden posts, and the front gable end features a large carved sunburst design. There are four guest rooms on each floor; those on the second level are accessed via outside stairs. [2]
The hotel was built by James William Bacon in 1912 to accommodate timber company executives and salesman during the area's timber boom, [3] It is one of the few surviving reminders of that period and cited in the National Registry as one of the state's finer railroad-era Folk Victorian-style hotels. [2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, [1] at which time it had been reported to be functionally vacant since the 1950s. [2]
