Bounds Building

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Bounds Building
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Location105 Second St., Clarendon, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°41′47″N91°19′2″W / 34.69639°N 91.31722°W / 34.69639; -91.31722 Coordinates: 34°41′47″N91°19′2″W / 34.69639°N 91.31722°W / 34.69639; -91.31722
Arealess than one acre
Built1917 (1917)
MPS Clarendon MRA
NRHP reference No. 84000186 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 1, 1984

The Bounds Building was a historic commercial building at 105 Second Street in Clarendon, Arkansas. It was a single-story brick building, with a flat roof, and a brick parapet over its storefront, which consisted of a pair of wood-and-glass doors flanked by plate glass windows. Built in 1917, it was the only building to survive the city's major building boom of 1910–20 with its storefront intact. It was built by John Bounds, a clerk in a dry goods store who eventually opened his own. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It has been listed as demolished in the state's cultural inventory database.

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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 Bounds Building" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-06-09.