Smith House (Searcy, Arkansas)

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Location607 W. Arch Ave., Searcy, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°15′0″N91°44′36″W / 35.25000°N 91.74333°W / 35.25000; -91.74333 Coordinates: 35°15′0″N91°44′36″W / 35.25000°N 91.74333°W / 35.25000; -91.74333
Arealess than one acre
Built1920 (1920)
Architect Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Architectural styleVernacular irregular plan
MPS White County MPS
NRHP reference No. 91001218 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 5, 1991

The Smith House is a historic house at 607 West Arch Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. Built in 1920, it is a rare local example of a prefabricated mail order house, produced by the Sears, Roebuck company as model #264P202. It is a two-story frame structure, with a side gable roof and novelty siding. The roof has extended eaves with exposed rafters and large brackets in the gable ends, and there is a projecting gable section in the center of the front facade. A porch wraps around to the left of this section, its shed roof supported by brick piers. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Smith House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-01-23.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)