Dean House (Texarkana, Arkansas)

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Location1520 Beech St., Texarkana, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°26′19″N94°2′19″W / 33.43861°N 94.03861°W / 33.43861; -94.03861
Arealess than one acre
Built1911 (1911)
Architect Witt & Seibert
Architectural styleColonial Revival
Part of Beech Street Historic District (ID09001254)
NRHP reference No. 76000433 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 1976
Designated CPJanuary 21, 2010

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. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, [1] and it was included in the Beech Street Historic District in 2010.

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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 Dean House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-09.[ permanent dead link ]

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