Casey House (Mountain Home, Arkansas) Explained

Casey House
Location:Fairgrounds off U.S. 62, Mountain Home, Arkansas
Coordinates:36.3239°N -92.3822°W
Architecture:Dog-trot
Added:December 4, 1975
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:75000374

The Casey House is a historic house on the Baxter County Fairgrounds in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Still at its original location when built c. 1858, is a well-preserved local example of a dog trot house, a typical Arkansas pioneer house. It is a rectangular structure made out of two log pens with a breezeway in between. It is finished in clapboard siding on the outside walls, and the breezeway is finished with flushboarding. A porch extends the width of the house front, and is sheltered by the side-gable roof that also covers the house. Colonel Casey, its builder, was one of Mountain Home's first settlers, and its first representative in the Arkansas legislature.[1]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

The house was destroyed during an F3 tornado on November 18, 1985.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Casey House . Arkansas Preservation . 2015-01-12 .
  2. 1985-11 Publication https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/sd/sd.html?_finish=0.5712250249554777