Temple House (Pine Bluff, Arkansas)

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Temple House
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Location1702 S. Oak St., Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°12′41″N92°0′38″W / 34.21139°N 92.01056°W / 34.21139; -92.01056 Coordinates: 34°12′41″N92°0′38″W / 34.21139°N 92.01056°W / 34.21139; -92.01056
Arealess than one acre
Built1910 (1910)
Architect Theo Sanders
Architectural style Prairie School
MPS Thompson, Charles L., Design Collection TR
NRHP reference No. 82000840 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 22, 1982

The Temple House is a historic house at 1702 South Oak Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a two-story brown brick structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and broad eaves typical of the Prairie School of architecture. A single-story flat-roof porch extends across the front, continuing to a form a porte-cochere to the left, with brick piers and low brick wall with stone coping. The house was built c. 1910 to a design by the architectural firm of Theo Sanders. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [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 Temple House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2012-12-15.