The North Washington Street Historic District is a residential

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

Hope, Arkansas Hope is a city in Hempstead County in southwestern Arkansas, United States. Hope is the county seat of Hempstead County and the principal city of the Hope Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Hempstead and Nevada counties. As of ...

. It consists of a group of six houses along the west side of North Washington Street, between B and E Streets, representing the best cluster of well-preserved houses from Hope's second period of residential expansion, between 1900 and 1945. The six houses (220, 316, 320, 402, and 416 North Washington and 704 Pond Street) are architecturally diverse: two of them are Folk Victorian wood-frame houses, two are Prairie style brick buildings, and the other two are Colonial and Craftsman in style. These house are set on larger house lots than those found in the

North Elm Street Historic District The North Elm Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in Hope, Arkansas. The district is rectangular in shape, roughly bounded on the north by Avenue G, on the west by Hervey Street, on the east by Hazel Street, ...

, part of Hope's original platting which features some older houses and generally smaller lot sizes. The district 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 1995.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Colonial Revival architecture in Arkansas Prairie School architecture in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1900 Hempstead County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Hempstead County, Arkansas {{HempsteadCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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