Jay Lewis House

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Jay Lewis House
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Location12 Fairview Dr., McGehee, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°38′13″N91°24′33″W / 33.63694°N 91.40917°W / 33.63694; -91.40917 Coordinates: 33°38′13″N91°24′33″W / 33.63694°N 91.40917°W / 33.63694; -91.40917
Arealess than one acre
Built1955 (1955)
ArchitectStone, Edward Durell
Architectural styleModern Movement, regional
NRHP reference # 04001501 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 2005

The Jay Lewis House is a historic house at 12 Fairview Drive in McGehee, Arkansas. The two story wood frame house was built in 1955 to a design by Edward Durell Stone, an Arkansas native and a leading proponent of new formalism. It is the only Stone-designed house in Desha County, and one of only five in the state. The exterior of the house is clad in vertical cypress boards, with a porch that wraps completely around the house, and a breezeway connecting to a carport, built at the same time. The porch roof is supported by six Douglas fir beams. The interior of the house is based on Stone's modern reinterpretation of the traditional Arkansas dog trot form, with the central living/dining/kitchen area acting as the central element of that form. Other rooms of the house connect to this section, and are separated from it by Shōji screens. The house's basic design is similar to that of another house Stone designed in Englewood, New Jersey. The house is largely unchanged since its construction; one chimney has been replaced due to storm damage. [2]

McGehee, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

McGehee is a city in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,219 at the 2010 census.

Edward Durell Stone American architect

Edward Durell Stone was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

New Formalism (architecture) late modernist style of architecture

New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid 1950s and flowered in the 1960s. Buildings designed in that style exhibited many Classical elements including "strict symmetrical elevations" building proportion and scale, Classical columns, highly stylized entablatures and colonnades. The style was used primarily for high-profile cultural, institutional and civic buildings. They were "typically constructed using rich materials such as marble, granite or man-made composites and also incorporated certain qualities of concrete that allowed for the creation of distinctive forms such as umbrella shells, waffle slabs and folded plates". Edward Durrell Stone's New Delhi American Embassy (1954), which blended the architecture of the east with modern western concepts, is considered to be the symbolic start of New Formalism architecture.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [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.

See also

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

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Desha County, Arkansas.

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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 Jay Lewis House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-03-11.