Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas)

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Cox House
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LocationBridge St., Morrilton, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°8′30″N92°44′6″W / 35.14167°N 92.73500°W / 35.14167; -92.73500 Coordinates: 35°8′30″N92°44′6″W / 35.14167°N 92.73500°W / 35.14167; -92.73500
Arealess than one acre
Built1871 (1871)
NRHP reference No. 74000471 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 22, 1974

The Cox House is a historic house on Bridge Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a small but architecturally eclectic single-story wood frame house, with a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It has a projecting gabled porch, with bargeboard on the gable rake edges, brackets on the eaves, low-pitch gabled cornices over the front windows, and a broad two-leaf entrance with sidelight windows. It was built in 1875 by Hance Wesley Burrow, a farmer and veteran of the American Civil War. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]

Following years of neglect, the building was removed May 1, 2016 by the land owner.[ citation needed ]

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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 Cox House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-05.