Happy Hollow Farm

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Happy Hollow Farm
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Location2099 Aqua Crossing, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Coordinates 36°3′47″N94°7′51″W / 36.06306°N 94.13083°W / 36.06306; -94.13083 Coordinates: 36°3′47″N94°7′51″W / 36.06306°N 94.13083°W / 36.06306; -94.13083
Area32.5 acres (13.2 ha)
Built1909 (1909)
Built byWilliam Lighton
Architectural styleH-Plan
NRHP reference # 86002241 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 6, 1986

Happy Hollow Farm is a historic house at 2099 Aqua Crossing in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a large single-story log house, shaped in an H, with a broad flared hip roof. The logs are stacked and held in place with spikes, rather than being notched at the corners. The property also includes a small log milk house and a stone cottage, all contemporaneous to the house's 1909-10 construction. The house was built by writer William Rheen Lighton, who made a reputation writing for major periodicals including the Saturday Evening Post , and published several novels and non-fiction books, including one named Happy Hollow Farm that romanticized life on an Arkansas farm. [2]

Fayetteville, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

Fayetteville is the third-largest city in Arkansas and county seat of Washington County. The city is centrally located within the county and has been home of the University of Arkansas since the institution's founding in 1871. Fayetteville is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until 1829, the city was named after Fayetteville, Tennessee, from which many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated on November 3, 1836 and was rechartered in 1867. The four-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 105th in terms of population in the United States with 463,204 in 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau. The city had a population of 73,580 at the 2010 Census.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas Wikimedia list article

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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 Happy Hollow Farm" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-04-04.