The Gemmill-Faust House is a historic house at 321 St. Andrew's Terrace in

West Helena, Arkansas West Helena is the western portion of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, a city in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2000 census, this portion of the city population was 8,689. Historically, West Helena and its sister city Helena ...

. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a brick-face exterior, built c. 1920. The house is an excellent local example of the

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

of design, with its broad spreading eaves, hip roof with hipped dormer, light-colored brick, and ribbon windows throughout. A period garage stands west of (behind) the main house. 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 1996.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Prairie School architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1920 Houses in Phillips County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Phillips County, Arkansas {{PhillipsCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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