National Register of Historic Places

Murphy, William J., House

Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas
Listed
August 6, 1979
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
79000462

About this property

The William J. Murphy House is a historic house at 923 North 13th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States. It is a rectangular 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with basically symmetrical massing by asymmetric details. The main roofline is hipped toward the front facade, with a pair of similarly sized projections on either side of a central raised hip-roof porch at the third level. The left projection has larger single windows at the first and second levels, and a small window recessed within a jerkin-headed gable pediment. The right projection has two narrower windows on the first and second levels and a small hipped element projecting from the top of that section's hip roof. A single-story porch extends across the width, supported by paired columns, with an entablature decorated by garlands. The house, built about 1895, is one of Fort Smith's most sophisticated expressions of Classical Revival architecture. It was built by a local manufacturer of saddles and harnesses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Location

923 N. 13th St.
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas
35.38927, -94.41242

Categories

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Sources

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

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When was Murphy, William J., House listed on the National Register?

Murphy, William J., House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1979.

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Murphy, William J., House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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