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Alfrey-Brown House

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c. 1901, Robert Alfrey, builder. 1001 S. Washington St.
  • (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, A Division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Ralph Wilcox, photographer)

Robert Alfrey was a leading builder in the Siloam Springs area at the turn of the twentieth century. Not long after he finished this two-story frame house, it was purchased by Methodist evangelist John E. Brown, who founded the college that became John Brown University (BN34). Little altered in plan, the house is a two-story example of a form known regionally as a prow house, a T-shaped plan where the short leg of the T projects from the facade like the prow of a ship and is usually surrounded on three sides by a one-story porch, as here. Typically, the house’s main entrance occurs at the corner formed by the prow and the T-crossing.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors
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What's Nearby

German Builder’s House
Bratt-Smiley House
Arvest Bank (First National Bank, Farmer’s State Bank)
Crown Hotel Apartments (Lakeside Hotel)
Cathedral of the Ozarks, John Brown University (JBU)

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "Alfrey-Brown House", [Siloam Springs, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-BN33.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 41-41.

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