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The Watson House is a historic house at 300 N. Cherry Street in
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,
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
. The two story Colonial Revival brick house was built in 1918, and features
veranda A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''veran ...
s on its street-facing elevations. The verandas are supported by large
Ionic columns The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...
that rise two full stories to support the roof, with the second floor veranda supported by cables suspended from above. The large-proportioned house is one of the most prominent buildings in Hamburg. It was designed and built by W. C. Bunn for David Watson, owner of a successful local hardware store. 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 1977. It now houses the Ashley County Museum.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Ashley County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ashley County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Ashley County, Arkansas, United St ...


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Ashley County Museum
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1918 Houses in Ashley County, Arkansas Museums in Ashley County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Ashley County, Arkansas 1918 establishments in Arkansas Hamburg, Arkansas {{AshleyCountyAR-NRHP-stub