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Historic house in Arkansas, United States United States historic place


Benjamin T. Powell House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	305 California Ave., Camden, Arkansas
Coordinates	33°34′52″N 92°49′59″W / 33.58111°N 92.83306°W / 33.58111; -92.83306
Area	less than one acre
Built	1859 (1859)
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	74000485
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1974

The Benjamin T. Powell House is a historic house at 305 California Avenue in Camden, Arkansas. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1859, and is one a few pre-Civil War cotton-magnate houses to survive in the city. The house has a cypress frame, and features a Classical Revival facade with a front gable supported by four round columns sheltering porches with ornamental iron railings. The house was used as a military headquarters by Union Army forces during the Civil War.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"NRHP nomination for Benjamin T. Powell House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-06-23.

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