The Bragg House is a historic house in rural

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. It is a two-story Greek Revival house located about west of Camden, the county seat, on

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(formerly designated

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). The house is basically rectangular in plan, with a hip roof. Its main entrance is sheltered by a two-story temple-style portico, with four columns topped with Doric capitals, and a turned-baluster railing on the second floor. Peter Newport Bragg began construction of the house in 1842, but did not complete it until 1850. The house was built out of virgin lumber sawn on Bragg's sawmill by his slaves; it remains in the hands of Bragg's descendants. The house was listed on the

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in 1974.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1850 Houses in Ouachita County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Ouachita County, Arkansas 1850 establishments in Arkansas {{OuachitaCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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