Charles "Bullet" Dean Hyten House | |
Location in Arkansas | |
Location | 211 Main St., Benton, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 34°33′44″N92°35′13″W / 34.56222°N 92.58694°W |
Built | 1922 |
NRHP reference No. | 12000804 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 24, 2012 |
The Charles "Bullet" Dean Hyten House is a historic house at 211 South Main Street in Benton, Arkansas. It is a single-story Bungalow-style structure, with a hip roof that extends over its front porch. The porch is supported by square columns set on brick piers, with decorative metal latticework between the columns. Built in 1922, the house significant as the only surviving house associated with Charles Hyten and Niloak pottery. Hyten and Arthur Dovey together created a pottery process in 1909 that achieved swirling of different colors and types of clay, yet held together without shattering when baked in a kiln. The process was patented by Hyten in 1928. It was the basis of the Arts and Crafts movement-era Niloak's Art pottery line. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1]
The Historic Arkansas Museum (HAM) is a state history museum in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas.
Niloak is a line of American art pottery produced by the Eagle Pottery Company of Benton, Arkansas. Eagle was founded by Charles Dean Hyten and his brothers in the 1890s and was the largest pottery-ware business in the Benton area by 1904. The name is the reverse spelling of kaolin, the main ingredient of porcelain.
The Pugh House is a historic house on US Route 65 in Portland, Arkansas. The house was built c. 1905 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. It is a basic Foursquare house that has been elaborated by a hip roof with flared eaves, and a wraparound porch supported by Ionic columns and decorated with a neo-classical balustrade.
The W.S. McClintock House is a historic house at 83 West Main Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a grand two-story wood-frame Classical Revival building designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. The symmetrical main facade has at its center a massive two-story portico supported by groups of Ionic columns, with a dentillated cornice and a flat roof. A single-story porch extends from both sides of this portico, supported by Doric columns, and wrapping around to the sides of the house. This porch is topped by an ironwork railing.
The Dunlap House is a historic house at 101 Grandview Avenue in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame American Foursquare structure, set on a tall stone foundation on a highly visible lot near the city center. Its porch, uncharacteristic for the Foursquare style, extends only across half the front, and curves around to the left side; it is supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built about 1910 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Fordyce House is a historic house at 2115 South Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1904 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, it is believed to be the state's only example of Egyptian Revival residential design. It is two stories in height, with narrow clapboard trim. A recessed porch shelters the main entrance, with the stairs leading up to flanked at the top by two heavy Egyptian columns. The second floor windows are banded in groups of three and the roof has a deep cornice with curved brackets. John Fordyce, for whom it was built, was a prominent businessman and engineer who held numerous patents related to cotton-processing machinery.
The Thurston House is a historic house at 923 Cumberland Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a blend of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. It has a hip roof with gabled dormer and cross gabled sections, and its porch is supported by Tuscan columns, with dentil molding at the cornice, and a spindled balustrade. It was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built about 1900.
The White House is a historic house at 1101 Perry Street in Helena, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1910 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. The Colonial Revival building has a pyramidal roof with projecting gable sections. A single-story porch wraps around two sides of the house, supported by grouped Tuscan columns. The front entry is framed by sidelight windows and pilasters. It is the only surviving Thompson design in Helena.
The Baer House is a historic house located at 1010 Rock Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Campbell-Chrisp House is a historic house at 102 Elm Street in Bald Knob, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story structure, supposedly designed by Charles Thompson, in a Romanesque style with Colonial Revival details. Prominent features include a large round-arch window on the first floor, above which is a three-part window with tall sections topped by round arches. A porch supported by Ionic columns wraps around the front and side of the house. The house was built in 1899 for Thomas Campbell, a local businessman.
The Dean House is a historic house off U.S. Route 165 in Portland, Arkansas. The 1+1⁄2-story house was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1910. Stylistically, it is a Creole cottage, a simple rectangular shape mounted in a foundation with brick piers. The roof extends over a wraparound porch, which is supported by Tuscan columns. The roof is pierced by a pair of gabled dormers that are decorated with fish-scale shingles.
The Davis House is a historic house at 212 Fulton Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame American Foursquare structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of rusticated concrete blocks. The roof has flared eaves with exposed rafter ends, and a front-facing dormer with a Flemish-style gable. The porch extends across the front and curves around to the side, supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built about 1905 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.
The England House is a historic house at 2121 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a broad two-story brick building, capped by a hip roof with gabled dormers. The main facade has a porch extending across its facade, supported by large brick piers. Its basic form is reminiscent of the Prairie School of design, but the house has Classical elements, including its south side porch, which is supported by large Tuscan columns. The house was built in 1914 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson.
The Fletcher House is a historic house at 909 Cumberland Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare house, with a dormered hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a single-story hip-roofed porch across the front. Built in 1900, it is a well-kept version of a "budget" Foursquare developed by architect Charles L. Thompson. It has simple Colonial Revival style features, including the porch columns and balustrade.
The Foster House is a historic house at 303 North Hervey Street in Hope, Arkansas. The two-story wood-frame house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1912. It is a fine local example of Bungalow/Craftsman style, with flared eaves and a full-length front porch supported by box columns, which are, in a Thompson signature, clustered in threes at the corners. The porch roof, dormer, and eave have classic Craftsman features, including exposed rafters and brackets. It is one of three Thompson designs in Hope.
The French–England House is a historic house at 1700 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large and elaborately-decorated two story American Foursquare house, with a tall hip roof with flared eaves, narrow weatherboard siding, and a high brick foundation. A single-story porch extends across much of the front, with Ionic columns and a modillioned and dentillated cornice. The house was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was built in 1900.
The Henry McKenzie House, also known locally as the Dalrymple House, is a historic house at 324 East Main Street in Prescott, Arkansas. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1902 by Henry McKenzie, and is said to have been designed by Charles L. Thompson, although there is no supporting evidence for this claim. The house is one of the best-kept transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival houses in Prescott, with decorative shingle siding in its gable ends and diamond-pane windows. Its most significant alteration was the removal of Ionic columns from its porch during renovations in the 1950s which including enclosing the porch.
The D.L. McRae House is a historic house at 424 East Main Street in Prescott, Arkansas. This 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1912. It is a well-preserved example of Thompson's work in a small-town setting, featuring Craftsman styling and a relatively unusual porch balustrade, with groups of three slender balusters clustered between porch columns.
The McRae House is a historic house at 1113 East 3rd Street in Hope, Arkansas. This two story brick house was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1917. It is a restrained Prairie style design, with a relatively simple main block, whose entrance is highlighted by a small porch supported by six Tuscan columns on brick plinths. The porch has curved beams, and the columns are echoed in pilasters on the facade.
The Dean House is a historic house at 1520 Beech Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame house, built in 1911 for Thomas Mercer Dean, a local farmer and lumberman. Its principal distinguishing feature is its large Colonial Revival portico, with paired two-story Tuscan columns supporting an elaborate entablature. Porches wrap around the north and east sides of the house, and there is a porte-cochère at the southern corner.