Wynn-Price House

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Wynn-Price House
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Location in United States
Nearest city Garland, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°21′48″N93°43′24″W / 33.36333°N 93.72333°W / 33.36333; -93.72333 Coordinates: 33°21′48″N93°43′24″W / 33.36333°N 93.72333°W / 33.36333; -93.72333
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
ArchitectWilliam Wynn
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference No. 90001950 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 23, 1992

The Wynn-Price House is a historic house on Price Drive, just outside Garland, Arkansas. The house is a rambling two-story wood-frame structure, roughly in an "E" shape, with three gable-roofed sections joined by hyphen sections. The gable ends have columned porticos, and the southern (front) facade has an elaborate two-story Greek temple front. With its oldest portion dating to 1844, it is one Arkansas' finest antebellum Greek Revival plantation houses. It was built by William Wynn, one of the region's most successful antebellum plantation owners. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [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 Wynn-Price House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-22.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)