Park Hill (Paris, Arkansas)

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Park Hill
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Location 400 E. Wahl St., Paris, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°17′5″N93°43′35″W / 35.28472°N 93.72639°W / 35.28472; -93.72639 Coordinates: 35°17′5″N93°43′35″W / 35.28472°N 93.72639°W / 35.28472; -93.72639
Built 1930 (1930)
Architect Bassham and Wheeler
Architectural style Mission Revival
NRHP reference # 12001233 [1]
Added to NRHP January 29, 2013

Park Hill is a historic house at 400 East Wahl Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a large two-story brick building, with Mediterranean style. It has a red tile hip roof, with a three-bay porch projecting from its five-bay facade, and a porte cochere on the west side. The house was built in 1929-30 as a wedding present from Charles Wahl to his wife, and was designed by Bassham and Wheeler of Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a distinctive local example of the Mediterranean Revival style. [2]

Paris, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

Paris is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States, and serves as the county seat for the northern district of Logan County; its southern district counterpart is Booneville. The population was 3,532 at the 2010 United States Census.

Fort Smith, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 86,209. With an estimated population of 88,037 in 2017, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents that encompasses the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian, and the Oklahoma counties of Le Flore and Sequoyah.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [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.

See also

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

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

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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 Park Hill" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-09.