Cross House (Beebe, Arkansas)

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Cross House
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Location410 S. Main St., Beebe, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°3′58″N91°52′31″W / 35.06611°N 91.87528°W / 35.06611; -91.87528
Arealess than one acre
Built1900 (1900)
Architectural styleVernacular ell-shaped
MPS White County MPS
NRHP reference No. 91001259 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1992
Removed from NRHPJanuary 26, 2018

The Cross House was a historic house at 410 South Main Street in Beebe, Arkansas. It was a 1+12-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof and novelty siding. The front-facing gable had a pair of sash windows with pedimented gables. A porch, with a shed roof supported by Doric columns, stood at the crook of the L. The house was built about 1900, and was one White County's few surviving L-shaped houses from that period. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1] It has been listed as destroyed in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program database, [3] and was delisted in 2018.

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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 Cross House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved September 22, 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. "Arkansas Historic Preservation Program database". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved December 26, 2015.