Jefferies-Crabtree House

Last updated
Jefferies-Crabtree House
Jefferies-Crabtree House 001.jpg
USA Arkansas location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location in Arkansas
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location in United States
Location300 Jefferson St., Clarendon, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°41′55″N91°18′59″W / 34.69861°N 91.31639°W / 34.69861; -91.31639 Coordinates: 34°41′55″N91°18′59″W / 34.69861°N 91.31639°W / 34.69861; -91.31639
Arealess than one acre
Built1923 (1923)
Architect Estes Mann
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS Clarendon MRA
NRHP reference No. 84000192 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 1, 1984

The Jefferies-Crabtree House is a historic house at 300 Jefferson Street in Clarendon, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick structure, with a hip roof pierced by a central shed-roof dormer and a pair of eyebrow louvered attic vents. The front facade is symmetrically arranged, with tripled sash windows on either side of the center entrance, which is recessed and has a projecting narrow portico supported by slender round columns. The house was designed by Estes Mann whose practice was based in Memphis, Tennessee, and was built in 1923 for Alfred Jefferies, whose family owned mercantile and lumber businesses. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as "Jefferies-Craptree House") in 1984. [1]

See also

Related Research Articles

Thomas Crabtree Three-Decker United States historic place

The Thomas Crabtree Three-Decker is historic triple-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1914, it is a remarkably well-preserved and detailed example of the style in Worcester's University Park neighborhood. It has a typical side hall plan, and a hip roof that sports a small gable dormer on the front elevation. It has projecting bays on the front and left sides. Its builder and first owner was Thomas Crabtree, a local factory supervisor.

Merritt House (Greenbrier, Arkansas) United States historic place

The Merritt House is a historic house at 139 North Broadview in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single story wood frame structure, finished with a masonry veneer, with an irregular plan featuring a variety of roof gables. The exterior is finished in sandstone with cream-colored brick trim. The main entrance is set under a deep front porch, whose front has a broad flat-topped arch, with a gable above that has a louver framed in brick. The house was built by Silas Owen, Sr., a local master mason, in 1948 for Billy Merritt. It was built using in part stone from a house built by Owen for Merritt's father, which had recently been torn down.

Oliver House (Corning, Arkansas) United States historic place

The Oliver House is a historic house at 203 West Front Street in Corning, Arkansas. It is a ​2 12-story wood-frame L-shaped structure, with a gambrel-roofed main block and a gable-roofed section projecting forward from the right side. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends through the crook of the L and around to the sides, supported by Tuscan columns. The interior retains original woodwork, including two particularly distinguished fireplace mantels. Built c. 1880 and last significantly altered in 1909, it is one of Corning's oldest buildings. It was built by J. W. Harb, and purchased not long afterward by Dr. J. L. Oliver Jr., whose son operated a general store nearby.

Remmel Apartments United States historic place

Remmel Apartments and Remmel Flats are four architecturally distinguished multiunit residential buildings in Little Rock, Arkansas. Located at 1700-1710 South Spring Street and 409-411 West 17th Street, they were all designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson for H.L. Remmel as rental properties. The three Remmel Apartments were built in 1917 in the Craftsman style, while Remmel Flats is a Colonial Revival structure built in 1906. All four buildings are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and are contributing elements of the Governor's Mansion Historic District.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Arkansas

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

Francis H. Holmes House United States historic place

The Francis H. Holmes House is a historic house at 349 Rocky Hill Ave. in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1906-08, it is an architecturally eclectic brick building, designed by a prominent local architect for the owner of a local brickmaking business, as a showcase for the latter's wares. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Troy Gordon House United States historic place

The Troy Gordon House is a historic house at 9 E. Township Road in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a stone foundation. The main entrance, centered on the symmetrical facade, is sheltered by a Doric gable-roofed portico whose columns are original to the house's 1851 construction. The house is one of the few remaining antebellum houses in Arkansas.

Union Station (Pine Bluff, Arkansas) United States historic place

Union Station is a former railroad station at East 4th Ave. and State St. in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. The station was originally at the union of the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain railroads, and now houses the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society museum. It is a single-story brick building, with a hip roof whose long eaves are supported by iron columns and half-truss brackets. The station was built in 1906 by the Iron Mountain Railroad. It had been a stop on the St. Louis Southwestern's Lone Star (Memphis-Dallas), and also on the railway's St. Louis-Dallas trains.

John Russell House United States historic place

The John Russell House is a historic house at 904 Charlotte Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. This single-story wood frame house was built c. 1925, and is Dallas County's finest example of Craftsman architecture. It has an outstanding porch whose roof is supported by four columns of geometrically arranged wooden members. A horizontal tie beam between the inner columns supports a column up to the apex of the gable roof.

J. M. McClintock House United States historic place

The J.M. McClintock House is a historic house at 43 Magnolia Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912, whose Craftsman/Bungalow styling is in marked contrast to the W.S. McClintock House, a Colonial Revival structure designed by Thompson for another member of the McClintock family and built the same year. This house has the broad sweeping roof line with exposed rafters covering a porch supported by brick piers and paired wooden box posts on either side of the centered stair. A dormer with clipped-gable roof is centered above the entry.

Fred Carter House United States historic place

The Fred Carter House is a historic house located on School Avenue, north of 4th Street, in Hardy, Arkansas.

A. C. Jeffery Farmstead United States historic place

The A. C. Jeffery Farmstead is a historic farmhouse in rural Izard County, Arkansas. It is located at the northern end of County Road 18, north of the hamlet of Mount Olive.

Dr. Charles Fox Brown House United States historic place

The Dr. Charles Fox Brown House is a historic house at 420 Drennan Street in Van Buren, Arkansas. It is a single story brick structure, whose main block is five bays wide, with a small secondary block set back from the front at the left, and an ell extending to the rear. It has a side-gable roof, with a front-facing gable above the centered entrance, which is further sheltered by a flat-roof portico supported by four columns. The eaves are studded with brackets, and there are a pair of round-arch windows in the front-facing gable. The house was built in 1867 for Dr. Charles Fox Brown, and is unusual for the original 19th-century surgery, located in the secondary block. The house is stylistically a distinctive blend of Greek Revival and Italianate styles.

Sam Marshall House United States historic place

The Sam Marshall House is a historic house in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It is located southeast of Morning Star, on the west side of County Road 163. It is a single-story log structure, rectangular in plan, with a roof whose front gable extends over a porch supported by square columns. The logs were apparently hand-hewn, and joined by dovetailed notches. Built in 1929, it is one of the latest examples of log construction in the county.

J.A. Neaville House United States historic place

The J.A. Neaville House is a historic house at the northeast corner of Arkansas Highway 385 and Len Avenue in Griffithville, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with weatherboard siding and a brick foundation. It has Craftsman styling, with doghouse dormers in the roof, and a broad screened porch under the roof, whose rafter ends are exposed. The core portion of the house was built in 1899, and was enlarged and restyled in 1917.

Greeson-Cone House United States historic place

The Greeson-Cone House is a historic house at 928 Center Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a ​1 12-story wood-frame structure with a brick exterior. It has a side-gable roof, whose front extends across a porch supported by brick piers near the corners and a square wooden post near the center. The roof has exposed rafter ends, and a gabled dormer in the Craftsman style. Built in 1920–21, it is a fine local example of Craftsman architecture.

Washburn House (Guy, Arkansas) United States historic place

The Washburn House is a historic house at 40 Battles Loop in Guy, Arkansas. It is a single story Ranch style house with a gabled roof. It has wood frame construction, but is finished in sandstone veneer with cream-colored brick trim, hallmarks of the construction style of a noted regional African-American mason, Silas Owens Sr., who built this house in 1953. It features quoined brick surrounds for the doors and windows and a front porch whose roof is an extension of the main roof, with wrought iron posts.

Ernest R. Burwell House United States historic place

The Ernest R. Burwell House is a historic house at 161 Grove Street in Bristol, Connecticut. Built in 1918, it is an outstanding example of a Classical Revival residence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Estes Mann

Estes Wilson Mann Sr. was an American architect based in Memphis, Tennessee. Several buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Dr. Eugene Towbin House United States historic place

The Eugene Towbin House is a historic house at 16 Broadview Drive in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was built in 1960 to a design by Hollis Beck, and is a good local example of Mid-Century Modern architecture. It is a single-story frame structure, its walls finished in vertical board siding and resting on a concrete block foundation. It is covered by a low-pitch side-facing gabled roof with deep eaves. The roof extends to the right beyond the main block to also shelter a carport. Eugene Towbin, for whose family the house was built, was a prominent physician in Little Rock.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Jefferies-Crabtree House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-06-18.