The Joel Smith House is a historic house at the northeast corner of the junction of United States Route 167 and County Route 5 in rural

Union County, Arkansas Union County is a county located on the central southern border of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,639. The county seat is El Dorado. The county was formed on November 2, 1829, and named in recognition ...

. Built , this two-story vernacular

I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...

was the home of Joel Smith, one of the first white settlers of Union County. The house is a rare surviving early example of a typical colonial-style house with matching shed-roof side porches. The property is also thought likely to yield archaeological finds useful in assessing and understanding frontier life in the area. 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 1990.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Union County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Arkansas 1840 establishments in Arkansas I-houses in Arkansas Colonial Revival architecture in Arkansas {{UnionCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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