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W.H.H. Clayton House

Coordinates: 35°23′30″N 94°25′15″W / 35.39167°N 94.42083°W / 35.39167; -94.42083
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W. H. H. Clayton House
W.H.H. Clayton House is located in Arkansas
W.H.H. Clayton House
Location in Arkansas
W.H.H. Clayton House is located in the United States
W.H.H. Clayton House
Location in United States
Location514 N. 6th St., Fort Smith, Arkansas
Coordinates35°23′30″N 94°25′15″W / 35.39167°N 94.42083°W / 35.39167; -94.42083
Arealess than one acre
Built1874 (1874)
NRHP reference No.70000130[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 4, 1970

The W.H.H. Clayton House, now the Clayton House Museum, is a historic house museum at 514 North 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a 2+12-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a projecting front clipped-gable section. It has elaborate Victorian trim, including detailed window surrounds, paneled projecting bays on the front and side, and a porch with carved columns and brackets, and delicately turned balusters ringing the porch roof. The house was built in 1882 for W. H. H. Clayton, who served as a local prosecutor and was member of family prominent in state politics, and is one of the few high-quality houses of the period to survive.[2] It is now a museum.

The house was the home of W.H.H. Clayton, United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and chief prosecutor in the court of "hanging judge" Isaac Parker.[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for W.H.H. Clayton House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  3. ^ Walker, Patricia Chamers (2000). Director of Historic House Museums in the United States. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-7425-0344-5. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
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