Byerley House, located at the corner of Lake Street and Ingram Street in Lake Providence in

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, is a one-story house built in c.1902. The house has Queen Anne styling including asymmetrical massing, textured surfaces, a wraparound gallery, and a hexagonal bay as well as a rectangular bay. The textured surfaces include "beaded board siding on the facade and gable peaks combining fishscale, diamond, and crescent shaped shingles." Although perhaps modest relative to two-story Queen Anne houses with turrets and other features elsewhere, it was deemed significant in its

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nomination to be "an intact and extremely rare example of the Queen Anne Revival style within Lake Providence". The house also has Stick-Eastlake details including "turned gallery columns and circular grilled vents piercing each of the building's ivemajor gables." The house was moved one block's distance in 1991 to save it from demolition, but as before it stands on a large corner lot which is the site of the King House enlisted in the

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and burned down some time after its listing. It is located near the southeastern shore of an

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and across the street from Grace Episcopal Church. wit
a photo and a map
With . The house was listed on the

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on November 13, 1991.

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