Isaac Block House

Historic house in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place


Isaac Block House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

35°13′35″N 90°47′19″W / 35.22639°N 90.78861°W / 35.22639; -90.78861
Area	less than one acre
Built	1885 (1885)
Built by	Block, Isaac
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	98000851^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1998

The Isaac Block House is a historic house at 404 East Hamilton Street in Wynne, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, locally notable for its fine Queen Anne styling. On the exterior this is evident in the wraparound porch, the use of fish-scale wood shingles, a projecting gable with carved decoration, and projecting bays that are similarly decorated. The house was built in Wittsburg in about 1885 by Isaac Block, a merchant son of German Jewish immigrants. After the railroad bypassed Wittsburg, Block decided to move the house to Wynne, a feat accomplished in the early 1900s by cutting the house into sections and hauling them on oversized wagons to the present location.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Isaac Block House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-12.