Benjamin Franklin Henley House

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Benjamin Franklin Henley House
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Nearest city St. Joe, Arkansas
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1870 (1870)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No. 85003070 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 5, 1985

The Benjamin Franklin Henley House is a historic house in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of St. Joe, on the south side of a side road off Arkansas Highway 374. It is a single-story wood frame dogtrot house, with a projecting gable-roofed portico in front of the original breezeway area. The house was built in stages, the first being a braced-frame half structure in about 1870, and the second room, completing the dogtrot, in 1876. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Benjamin Franklin Henley House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-07-22.