The Casey House is a historic house on the
Baxter County Fairgrounds in
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Mountain Home is a city in, and the county seat of, Baxter County, Arkansas, United States, in the southern Ozark Mountains near the northern state border with Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12,448. A total of 41, ...
. Still at its original location when built c. 1858, is a well-preserved local example of a
dog trot house, a typical Arkansas pioneer house. It is a rectangular structure made out of two log pens with a breezeway in between. It is finished in clapboard siding on the outside walls, and the breezeway is finished with flushboarding. A porch extends the width of the house front, and is sheltered by the side-gable roof that also covers the house. Colonel Casey, its builder, was one of Mountain Home's first settlers, and its first representative in the Arkansas legislature.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The house was destroyed during an F3 tornado on November 18, 1985.
[1985-11 Publication https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/sd/sd.html?_finish=0.5712250249554777]
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Baxter County, Arkansas
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1858
Houses in Baxter County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Baxter County, Arkansas
Mountain Home, Arkansas
1858 establishments in Arkansas
Dogtrot architecture in Arkansas
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