The Pennington House is a historic house at 317 Johnson Street in

Clarksville, Arkansas Clarksville is a city in Johnson County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 9,178, up from 7,719 in 2000. As of 2018, the estimated population was 9,743. The city is the county seat of Johnson County. It is nestled ...

. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a complex cross-gabled plan, weatherboard siding, and a stuccoed brick foundation. It has an eclectic blend of

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

and

Folk Victorian Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construc ...

features, including paired brackets in its eaves, moulded hoods over its sash windows, and a decorated porch. The house was built in 1888-89 by B.D. Pennington. The house was listed on the

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in 1994.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Arkansas Italianate architecture in Arkansas Houses completed in 1888 Houses in Johnson County, Arkansas {{JohnsonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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