Koons House

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Koons House
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Location409 Fifth St., Bentonville, Arkansas
Coordinates 36°22′39″N94°12′52″W / 36.37750°N 94.21444°W / 36.37750; -94.21444 Coordinates: 36°22′39″N94°12′52″W / 36.37750°N 94.21444°W / 36.37750; -94.21444
Arealess than one acre
Built1908 (1908)
Architectural styleGumdrop Duple
MPS Benton County MRA
NRHP reference No. 87002330 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 22, 1988

The Koons House is a historic house at 409 Fifth Street NW in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is an unusually high-quality and well-preserved example of a once-common local vernacular form called the "gumdrop duple", a two-family residence with a pyramidal roof. The front facade has a single-story hip-roofed porch supported by tapered square columns, and there is a shed-roof addition across the rear. The roof is not fully pyramidal, having small gable sections near the peak that provide ventilation. The house was built c. 1908, and is a slightly larger version of the traditional form. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [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 Koons House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-02-16.