Bacon Hotel
National Register of Historic Places

Bacon Hotel

Whitehall, Poinsett County, Arkansas
Listed
December 13, 1995
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
95001437

About this property

The Bacon Hotel, also known as the Sunrise Hotel, is a historic hotel building at the southeast corner of Railroad and Homestead Roads in Whitehall, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof and a two-story porch extending across its front. The porch is supported by spindled wooden posts, and the front gable end features a large carved sunburst design. There are four guest rooms on each floor; those on the second level are accessed via outside stairs. The hotel was built by James William Bacon in 1912 to accommodate timber company executives and salesman during the area's timber boom, It is one of the few surviving reminders of that period and cited in the National Registry as one of the state's finer railroad-era Folk Victorian-style hotels. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, at which time it had been reported to be functionally vacant since the 1950s.

Location

Whitehall, Poinsett County, Arkansas
35.48004, -90.73482

Categories

ARCHITECTURETRANSPORTATIONEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Bacon Hotel listed on the National Register?

Bacon Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1995.

What type of historic resource is Bacon Hotel?

Bacon Hotel is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Bacon Hotel?

The period of significance for Bacon Hotel is recorded as the industrial era.

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