The Crenshaw-Burleigh House is a historic house at 108 North Main Street in
Dermott, Arkansas
Dermott is a city in Chicot County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,316 at the 2010 census. Dermott was incorporated in 1890.
Dermott was home to the Dermott Crawfish Festival.
Geography
Dermott is located in the northwest corner ...
. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1903 to replace the Crenshaw house that burned in 1902, and is a distinctive early example of Colonial Revival architecture. Its first owner was Anna Crawford Crenshaw, granddaughter of Hon William Harris Crawford; its second owners were James Sherer Burleigh and Mattie Crenshaw Burleigh (Anna's daughter). The house has a gambrel roof with cross gables, and a wraparound porch supported by Tuscan columns. The second floor, built into the steep section of the gambrel roof has gable dormers with architrave surrounds. An elevator was added by the Burleighs after Sherer had a heart attack. Mattie Burleigh lived here until her death in 1970.
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 2012.
See also
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1905
Houses in Chicot County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Chicot County, Arkansas
Dermott, Arkansas
1905 establishments in Arkansas
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