Keesee House

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Keesee House
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Keesee House undergoing renovations March, 2016
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Location723 Arkansas St., Helena, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°31′18″N90°35′31″W / 34.52167°N 90.59194°W / 34.52167; -90.59194
Arealess than one acre
Built1901 (1901)
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No. 83001162 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1983

The Keesee House is a historic house at 723 Arkansas Street in Helena, Arkansas. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, built in 1901 for Thomas Woodfin Keesee, the son of a local plantation owner. It is an excellent local example of transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival architecture, exhibiting the irregular gable projections, bays and tower of the Queen Anne, but with a restrained porch treatment with Ionic columns. The exterior is sheathed in a variety of clapboarding and decorative shingling, and there are wood panels with carved garland swags. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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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 Keesee House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved November 2, 2014.