The Jefferies-Crabtree House is a historic house at 300 Jefferson Street in

Clarendon, Arkansas Clarendon is a city in, and the county seat of, Monroe County, Arkansas, Monroe County, Arkansas, United States. Located in the Arkansas Delta, the city's position on the White River (Arkansas), White River at the mouth of the Cache River (Arkansas ...

. It is a two-story red brick structure, with a hip roof pierced by a central shed-roof dormer and a pair of eyebrow louvered attic vents. The front facade is symmetrically arranged, with tripled sash windows on either side of the center entrance, which is recessed and has a projecting narrow portico supported by slender round columns. The house was designed by

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whose practice was based in

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, and was built in 1923 for Alfred Jefferies, whose family owned mercantile and lumber businesses. The house was listed on the

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(as "Jefferies-Craptree House") in 1984.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Colonial Revival architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1923 Houses in Monroe County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Arkansas {{MonroeCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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