The Samuel Brown House is a historic house in West Richwoods, Arkansas. Located down a long lane south of

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, it is a single-story log

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house, with its two pens separated by an open breezeway. Its

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extends over the front (western) facade to create a porch, supported by chamfered wooden posts. The house is believed to retain its original weatherboard siding. A period smokehouse stands just south of the main house. The house was built in 1848 by Samuel Brown, who moved to Arkansas from

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in 1840, and was progressively refined by him over the following decades as his financial condition improved. The house was listed on the

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in 1985.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1848 Houses in Stone County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Stone County, Arkansas {{StoneCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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