Denison House | |
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Location in Arkansas | |
Location | 427 Garland Ave., West Helena, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 34°32′44″N90°38′25″W / 34.54556°N 90.64028°W |
Built | 1910 |
Architect | J.W. Denison |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | West Helena MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 96001132 [1] |
Added to NRHP | October 31, 1996 |
The Denison House is a historic house at 427 Garland Avenue in West Helena, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure with a broad and shallow hip roof with wide hip-roof dormers, built in 1910 by J. W. Denison, West Helena's first mayor. It has a wraparound porch supported by Tuscan columns. It is one of West Helena's finest Colonial Revival houses. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]
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