Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas)

The Cox House is a historic house on Bridge Street in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a small but architecturally eclectic single-story wood-frame house, with a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It has a projecting gabled porch, with bargeboard on the gable rake edges, brackets on the eaves, low-pitch gabled cornices over the front windows, and a broad two-leaf entrance with sidelight windows. It was built in 1875 by Hance Wesley Burrow, a farmer and veteran of the American Civil War.[2]

Cox House
Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas) is located in Arkansas
Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas)
Location in Arkansas
Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas) is located in the United States
Cox House (Morrilton, Arkansas)
Location in United States
LocationBridge St., Morrilton, Arkansas
Coordinates35°8′30″N 92°44′6″W / 35.14167°N 92.73500°W / 35.14167; -92.73500
Arealess than one acre
Built1871 (1871)
NRHP reference No.74000471[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 22, 1974

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Following years of neglect, the building was removed May 1, 2016 by the land owner.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Cox House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-05.