MacMillan-Dilley House

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MacMillan-Dilley House
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Location407 Martin Ave., Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°13′5″N92°0′22″W / 34.21806°N 92.00611°W / 34.21806; -92.00611 Coordinates: 34°13′5″N92°0′22″W / 34.21806°N 92.00611°W / 34.21806; -92.00611
Arealess than one acre
Built1903 (1903)
Architectural stylePrairie School
NRHP reference # 76000422 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 1976

The MacMillan-Dilley House is a historic house at 407 Martin Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a cross-gable roof configuration, and distinctive siding consisting of boards topped by moulding. The underside of the extended roof gables are painted white, and the building has other features that are signatures of the Prairie School of design. It was built in 1903 to a design by Chicago architect Hugh M.G. Garden, who had supposedly studied with the major exponent of the Prairie School style, Frank Lloyd Wright. [2]

Pine Bluff, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area. The population of the city was 49,083 in the 2010 Census with 2017 estimates showing a decline to 42,984.

Prairie School architectural style

Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.

Chicago City in Illinois, United States

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,716,450 (2017), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, and the fourth largest in North America and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [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 preserving the property.

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

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "NRHP nomination for MacMillan-Dilley House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-11-24.