Blackburn House (Canehill, Arkansas)

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Blackburn House
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LocationMain at College Sts., Canehill, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°54′37″N94°23′46″W / 35.91028°N 94.39611°W / 35.91028; -94.39611 Coordinates: 35°54′37″N94°23′46″W / 35.91028°N 94.39611°W / 35.91028; -94.39611
Arealess than one acre
Built1898 (1898)
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
MPS Canehill MRA
NRHP reference No. 82000940 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1982

The Blackburn House is a historic house at Main and College Streets in Canehill, Arkansas. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable hip roof and a stone foundation. The house has the asymmetrical massing and decorative wood shingle siding in its gables that are characteristic of Queen Anne architecture, and shed-roof porch extending across its main facade, supported by box columns. The porch has a gabled pediment above the stairs leading to the main entrance, and a symmetry more typical of the Colonial Revival. Built in 1898 by a local doctor, this house is a well-preserved local example of this transitional form. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [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 Blackburn House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-03-19.