The Craig-Bryan House is a historic house at 307 West Central Avenue 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 ...

. It is an eclectic two-story brick house, with several gabled wings, and projecting bay window sections. Its front-facing gable ends are decorated with

bargeboard Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin ''bargus'', or ''barcus'', a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym "vergeboard") or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to ...

, and there is a prominent three-story tower at the center with a shallow-pitch hip roof. Its iron balconies were salvaged from the old Benton County Courthouse when it was demolished. The house was built in 1875 by James Terrill Craig, and owned by members of the Bryan family for seven decades. The house was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1988.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Italianate architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Bentonville, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Bentonville, Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas 1875 establishments in Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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