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Presently used as a waterfowl hunting lodge, The Elms is a historic plantation house in rural
Jefferson County, Arkansas Jefferson County, officially the County of Jefferson, is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas in the area known as the Arkansas Delta that extends west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson County consists of fi ...
. Located a short way south of Altheimer, it is a -story raised Louisiana cottage, an
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that is extremely rare in
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. It is a -story wood-frame structure, set on a raised basement. A porch extends across the front, with jigsawn
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, and the main roof is pierced by three gabled
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s. The house was built in 1866 by Dr. Samuel Jordon Jones. Today, the house serves as the centerpiece of The Elms Lodges & Leases, a commercial duck hunting business. The building was listed on the
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in 1978.


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External links


Elms Lodge web site
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1866 Jefferson County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Arkansas {{JeffersonCountyAR-NRHP-stub