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Beisel-Mitchell House

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1930, Sax Branum, builder. 420 W. Court St.
  • (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, A Division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Ralph Wilcox, photographer)

This handsome Spanish Colonial Revival L-shaped house just west of downtown was commissioned by E. N. Beisel, manager of a wood-veneer mill, as a wedding present for his wife. Typical of the style are the stuccoed exterior, the second-story overhang, roundarched windows and entrances, a low-pitched red clay tile roof, wrought-iron window grilles, and the small wooden balcony in front of a second-story window. The house set a precedent for several other Spanish-influenced houses in Paragould in the 1930s. A few years after it was built, Cecil Mitchell, who later became president of Paragould’s First National Bank, purchased the house.

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

Historic Greene County Courthouse
St. Mary Catholic Church
Crowley’s Ridge State Park

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "Beisel-Mitchell House", [Paragould, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-GE2.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 222-222.

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