The Braithwaite House is a historic house at Bella Vista Drive and Braithwaite Street in

Bentonville, Arkansas Bentonville is the List of cities and towns in Arkansas, tenth-largest city in Arkansas, United States and the county seat of Benton County, Arkansas, Benton County. The city is centrally located in the county with Rogers, Arkansas, Rogers adja ...

. Built , this single-story brick house may be the oldest house in Benton County, and is the only one of its type in the city. Its form is similar to a

saltbox A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a woode ...

with a side gable roof that has a short front slope and an extended rear slope. An open porch with a shed roof extends across the front. The house was by James Haney, an Irish brick mason, for the Braithwaites, who were major local landowners. The house was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1885 Houses in Bentonville, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Bentonville, Arkansas Saltbox architecture in the United States 1885 establishments in Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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