Reeves-Melson House | |
Nearest City: | Bonnerdale, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 34.4358°N -93.4103°W |
Builder: | William H. Reeves, Larkin Melson |
Architecture: | Dogtrot plan |
Added: | December 5, 1985 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 85003069 |
The Reeves-Melson House is a historic house in rural Montgomery County, Arkansas. It is a private inholding within Ouachita National Forest, located on the east side of Miles Road, north of Bonnerdale and east of Alamo. It is a single story dogtrot, with a log pen and a wooden frame pen separated by a breezeway under a gable roof. A shed-roof porch extends across the front, and the building is clad in weatherboard. The log pen has a trapdoor providing access to a dugout cellar, a feature not typically found in regional dogtrot houses. The log pen was built in 1882 by William Reeves, and the frame pen was built in 1888 by Larkin Melson.[1]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.