Mullins Court

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Mullins Court
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Location605 Hickory St., Texarkana, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°25′53″N94°2′8″W / 33.43139°N 94.03556°W / 33.43139; -94.03556 Coordinates: 33°25′53″N94°2′8″W / 33.43139°N 94.03556°W / 33.43139; -94.03556
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
Architect Witt, Seibert & Halsey
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP reference # 06001313 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 29, 2007

Mullins Court is a historic apartment complex at 605 Hickory Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a two-story U-shaped building built of brick and topped by a hip roof. The main entry is located in the courtyard formed by the U, and is framed in limestone trim. The brick is primarily orange, although there is a course of puce bricks that serve as an accent. The building was designed by Witt, Seibert & Halsey, and was built in 1928. It was the first apartment block in the city built in the Colonial Revival style, and was named in honor of the locally prominent Mullins family. [2]

Texarkana, Arkansas City in the United States

Texarkana is a city in Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County. The city is located across the state line from its twin city, Texarkana, Texas. The city was founded at a railroad intersection on December 8, 1873, and was incorporated in Arkansas on August 10, 1880. Texarkana is the principal city of the Texarkana metropolitan area, which is ranked 274th in terms of population in the United States with 150,098 in 2016 according to the United States Census Bureau.

Hip roof type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls

A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.

Limestone Sedimentary rocks made of calcium carbonate

Limestone is a carbonate sedimentary rock that is often composed of the skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, foraminifera, and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). A closely related rock is dolomite, which contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2. In old USGS publications, dolomite was referred to as magnesian limestone, a term now reserved for magnesium-deficient dolomites or magnesium-rich limestones.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [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 in preserving the property.

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

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

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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 Mullins Court" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-15.