Tillman Shaw House | |
Location: | 500 S. Nineteenth St., Fort Smith, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 35.3789°N -94.4131°W |
Architecture: | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Prairie School, American Foursquare |
Added: | May 16, 1988 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 88000561 |
The Tillman Shaw House is a historic house at 500 South 19th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The house is an architecturally eclectic two-story brick structure, set on an artificially raised plot in a neighborhood of predominantly smaller houses. It has a basic American Foursquare structure, with stylistic embellishments borrowed from a number of styles, including the Mission Revival, Prairie School, and Colonial Revival. It was built in 1909 by Tillman Shaw, a prosperous saloon owner in the then-frontier town. Shaw's fortunes were ruined by the advent of Prohibition, and he was forced to sell the house in 1919.[1]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.