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Historic house in Arkansas, United States United States historic place


Jay Lewis House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	12 Fairview Dr., McGehee, Arkansas
Coordinates	33°38′13″N 91°24′33″W / 33.63694°N 91.40917°W / 33.63694; -91.40917
Area	less than one acre
Built	1955 (1955)
Architect	Edward Durell Stone
Architectural style	Modern Movement, regional
NRHP reference No.	04001501
Added to NRHP	January 20, 2005

The Jay Lewis House is a historic house at 12 Fairview Drive in McGehee, Arkansas. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1955 to a design by Edward Durell Stone, an Arkansas native and a leading proponent of new formalism. It is the only Stone-designed house in Desha County, and one of only five in the state. The exterior of the house is clad in vertical cypress boards, with a porch that wraps completely around the house, and a breezeway connecting to a carport, built at the same time. The porch roof is supported by six Douglas fir beams. The interior of the house is based on Stone's modern reinterpretation of the traditional Arkansas dog trot form, with the central living/dining/kitchen area acting as the central element of that form. Other rooms of the house connect to this section, and are separated from it by Shōji screens. The house's basic design is similar to that of another house Stone designed in Englewood, New Jersey. The house is largely unchanged since its construction; one chimney has been replaced due to storm damage.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"NRHP nomination for Jay Lewis House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-03-11.

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