Piercy Farmstead

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Piercy Farmstead
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LocationOsage Mills Rd., Osage Mills, Arkansas
Coordinates 36°16′25″N94°16′1″W / 36.27361°N 94.26694°W / 36.27361; -94.26694 Coordinates: 36°16′25″N94°16′1″W / 36.27361°N 94.26694°W / 36.27361; -94.26694
Area3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built1909 (1909)
MPS Benton County MRA
NRHP reference No. 87002379 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 28, 1988

The Piercy Farmstead is a historic farm complex on Osage Mills Road in Osage Mills, Arkansas. It includes a c. 1909 vernacular Colonial Revival farmhouse, and is unusual for the collection of ten surviving agricultural outbuildings, including storage buildings, chicken houses, a barn, privy, grain crib, and well house. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a rear extension giving it a T shape. A single-story porch with simple classical columns extends across the symmetrical front. [2]

The property 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 Piercy Farmstead". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-02-28.