Mills House (Pine Bluff, Arkansas)

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Mills House
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Location 715 W. Barraque, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°13′15″N92°0′36″W / 34.22083°N 92.01000°W / 34.22083; -92.01000 Coordinates: 34°13′15″N92°0′36″W / 34.22083°N 92.01000°W / 34.22083; -92.01000
Area less than one acre
Built 1902 (1902)
Architectural style Folk Victorian
NRHP reference # 98000584 [1]
Added to NRHP May 29, 1998

The Mills House is a historic house at 715 West Barraque Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a front gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its front has a porch extending across the front, which has turned posts, a spindlework balustrade and frieze, and jigsawn brackets. Built in 1902, it is a good local example of vernacular architecture with Folk Victorian details. [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.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]

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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 Mills House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-11-27.