The Sims Hotel was a historic hotel in

Plumerville, Arkansas Plumerville is a city in Conway County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 826 at the 2010 census. Geography Plumerville is located in southern Conway County at (35.160896, -92.642794), along U.S. Route 64, which leads east to Meni ...

. Located in the town center, it was the last surviving remnant of the town's early heyday as a railroad community. Built in 1860s as a private residence, it was converted to a hotel when the railroad arrived in the 1870s, and was decorated with then-fashionable Gothic

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on its two-story porch. It was the only railroad-oriented hotel to survive fires that swept the city's downtown in the early 20th century. The building was listed on the

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in 1975. It has apparently been demolished, and was delisted in 2000.

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Hotel buildings completed in 1881 Buildings and structures in Conway County, Arkansas 1881 establishments in Arkansas Former National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas {{ConwayCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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