The Bottoms House is a historic house at 500 Hickory Street in

Texarkana, Arkansas Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,387. The city is located across the state line from its twin city ...

. It is a -story buff brick structure with a jerkin-headed gable roof and a large gable dormer, set on a raised corner. It was designed by Bayard Witt, a Texarkana architect, and built in 1910 for George Bottoms, one of area's principal lumber businessmen. The house's basic design follows the

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

, with broad lines exemplified by its sweeping single-story porch, although the half-timbered detailing found inside is Tudor in inspiration, and other details, such as colored windows and exposed rafters, are Craftsman in orientation. The house was listed on the

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in 1982.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Prairie School architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1910 Houses in Miller County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Miller County, Arkansas Buildings and structures in Texarkana, Arkansas {{MillerCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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