The A. C. Jeffery Farmstead is a historic farmhouse in rural

Izard County, Arkansas Izard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,696. The county seat is Melbourne. Izard County is Arkansas's 13th county, formed on October 27, 1825, and named for War of 1812 Gener ...

. It is located at the northern end of County Road 18, north of the hamlet of Mount Olive.

Description and history

It is a two-story wood frame

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 archi ...

with a traditional central hall plan, and a kitchen ell extending to the rear (east) of the main block. The front faces west, overlooking the White River, and has a two-story porch extending across the center three bays of the five-bay facade. The interior features woodwork and hardware original to the building's c. 1848 construction. The house was built by Augustus Jeffery, the son of Jehoiada Jeffery, the first permanent white settler in north-central Arkansas, and is one of the oldest houses in the region. The property was listed on the

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on August 11, 1994.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1848 Houses in Izard County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Izard County, Arkansas I-houses in Arkansas {{IzardCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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