The Yale Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district near the center of Wakefield, Massachusetts. It encompasses eight residential properties, all but one of which were developed in the 1860s and 1870s, after the arrival of the railroad in town. These properties were built primarily for Boston businessmen, and mark the start of Wakefield's transition to a suburb.
The House at 21 Chestnut Street is one of the best preserved Italianate houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1855 to a design by local architect John Stevens, and was home for many years to local historian Ruth Woodbury. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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The Lightle House, a historic house at 605 Race Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas contains two stories, a full basement, and a full attic. Its brick facade attaches to a reinforced concrete foundation which supports a tile hip roof with 1924 Ludovici tiles. Designed by Charles L. Thompson, it has plans dated December 1923, so construction started in 1924 and continued until the Edward Lightle family moved into the house in April 1925, a date documented on the underside of a garden urn presently located under a wrought iron gazebo in the back yard.
The Deener House is a historic house at 310 East Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story Bungalow/Craftsman style house that was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. It has the low-slung appearance typical of the Bungalow style, with a side gable roof that extends across its full-width front porch, where it is supported by fieldstone piers, and shows exposed rafters. Three small gable-roof dormers are closely spaced near the center of the otherwise expansive roof.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic church at the junction of Race and Spring Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story buff brick Romanesque Revival structure, with a cross-gable roof configuration and a square tower at the right front corner. The tower houses the main entrance in a pointed-arch recess, and has a louvered belfry at the second level below the pyramidal roof. The church was built in 1903 for a congregation organized in 1824, and is a fine example of Romanesque and Classical Revival architecture.
The Baldock House is a historic house at the southeast corner of South Elm Street and Woodruff Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick building with a clipped-gable roof and a full-width porch that wraps around to the east side. The northern (front) slope of the roof is pierced by three pedimented gable-roof dormers, the central one larger and housing two sash windows. Built c. 1910, this is house is one of six brick houses to survive from the early 20th century in White County.
The Green Booth House is a historic house at South Pecan Street and West Center Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure, with a broad gabled roof, and a wraparound front porch that extends to a carport on the left. A gabled dormer projects from the center of the front roof slope, and the porch is supported by tapered columns set on brick piers. Built c. 1925, the house is a fine example of the area's second phase of Craftsman architecture.
The Dr. Robinson House is a historic house on Walnut Street east of Center Street in Leslie, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a hip-roofed main section and projecting gable sections to the front and rear. A single-story porch extends across the portion of the front to the right of the gable section, supported by Classical turned columns with a turned balustrade. A rear screened porch has similar supports. The house was built c. 1917-18 for a doctor who primarily served local railroad workers.
The Wood Freeman House No. 2 is a historic house at 703 West Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story structure, with a wood frame and exterior finish of brick, stucco, and coral. It is basically rectangular in shape, with a projecting gable section at the left end, and a center entrance sheltered by a broad gable-roofed porch. A fieldstone chimney rises just to the right of the entrance. Built about 1935, it is a good local example of English Revival architecture. Wood Freeman House No. 1 is the other architecturally significant houses built by local builder Wood Freeman.
The Arthur W. Hoofman House is a historic house at North Cross and East Race Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a side-facing gable roof that has a half-timbered gable end. The massing of the house is complex, with a variety of dormer and gable shapes, and a wraparound porch recessed under the roof, supported by an arcade of brick piers. The house, built in 1931 for a strawberry grower, is the city's finest example of high style English Revival architecture.
The Lightle House is a historic house on County Road 76 in White County, Arkansas, just north of the Searcy city limits. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, a shed-roof porch across the front, and a central chimney. An addition extends to the rear, giving it a T shape, with a second chimney projecting from that section. Built about 1920, it is the county's only known surviving example of a "saddlebag" house.
The Lightle House was a historic house at 107 North Elm Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It was a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, stuccoed wood shingle exterior, and a foundation of brick piers. It exhibited a combination of Craftsman and Colonial Revival elements, and was built in 1918. It was considered one of the city's finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.
The Ben Lightle House is a historic house at North Locust and East Market streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a variety of porches and projecting sections typical of the Queen Anne period. One of its porches has decorative turned posts and spindled balustrades. Built in 1898, it is one of the best-preserved surviving vernacular Queen Anne Victorians in White County.
The Bob Rogers House was a historic house at South Spring Street and West Woodruff Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It was a two-story wood frame I-house, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its most prominent feature was a projecting pedimented Greek Revival portico. It was built about 1870, and was one of the city's few examples of Greek Revival architecture.
The Porter Rodgers Sr. House was a historic house at the junction of North Oak and East Race Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It was a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete foundation. A cross-gabled Greek Revival portico, two stories in height, projected from the center of its roof line, supported by fluted square box columns. It was built in 1925, and was one of the city's best examples of high-style Colonial Revival architecture.
The Watkins House is a historic house at 1208 East Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gambrel roof and original stucco exterior. A single-story ell extends to the left, and a similarly sized carport extends to the right. The gambrel nature of the roof is somewhat obscured by the large shed-roof dormer that extends across most of the front. Built 1919–20, it is one of a small number of Colonial Revival houses in the community.
The Tom Watkins House is a historic house at Oak and Race Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with a cross-gabled tile roof and a concrete foundation. A porch extends across part of the front and beyond the left side, forming a carport. The main roof and porch roof both feature exposed rafter tails in the Craftsman style, and there are small triangular brackets in the gable ends. The house, a fine local example of Craftsman architecture, was built about 1920 to a design by Charles L. Thompson.
The Wilburn House is a historic house at 707 East Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. It has a projecting gabled entry porch, with a broad frieze and fully pedimented gable supported by square columns with molded capitals. Built about 1875, it is one of Searcy's finest surviving pre-railroad houses.
Highway 36 is a state highway in Central Arkansas. The highway begins at U.S. Highway 64 (US 64) at Hamlet and runs east through several small communities to Searcy, where it serves as the Beebe-Capps Expressway, a major crosstown arterial roadway. Following a discontinuity at US 64/US 67/US 167, the highway continues east to Kensett as Wilbur D. Mills Avenue before state maintenance ends at the small community of Georgetown. This highway is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT).
