historic homes: Was this house a hospital? 401 E Park, Searcy AR. Historic home. - 04/23/12 07:32 PM
It was 1984 and this property was listed. It sold. Then it sold again. And even I had it for sale at one time. It rented mostly to Harding students because it is within walking distance of Harding. It was so TALL! And it is still tall. Here is today's view.
When I had this house listed the rumors were interesting. It was rumored that this building was once a hospital. Perhaps the Searcy Sleuths can clear this up.
The courthouse says it was built in 1930. Notice it was for sale for $59,900 in 1984. Today's assessment … (24 comments)
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historic homes: Where was this house in Searcy AR several years ago? Searcy Sleuths test. - 04/14/12 10:49 AM
Old advertisements for houses left out an item or two in order to get the customer to call and find out where the property was.
Well, to tell the truth, real estate agents still do it!
This picture comes from an old Powell Realty advertisement and leaves out (guess what) the address! Powell Realty no longer exists and neither does this house but Searcy Sleuths may remember it. Having been in the real estate business for so long, I remember most of them. This is from a 1984 advertisement booklet.
Test......where was it? It's a neat old house, isn't it?
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historic homes: OMG! Is that our haunted house in this 1918 Mulberry Street Quitman AR postcard?? - 02/24/12 01:25 PM
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette has this popular feature called Arkansas postcard past by Steven Hanley and they print an old postcard each day. This is Feb 24, 2012 and the card of the day is shown below.
It just so happens that we have a house listed on Mulberry that is inhabited by spirits as local legend goes. We have permission from the seller to advertise it this way also. So I peered at this dirt street and read underneath the picture. It reads, "Quitman, 1914. There was no traffic on the Cleburne County rural hamlet's tree-lined Mulberry Street when … (22 comments)
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historic homes: Safe at last! They took care of the tree danger in Searcy AR between two historic homes. - 02/08/12 08:57 PM
Now I can feel safe driving between two of Searcy's most historic homes. They are located on E. Center Street and the tree looked like this. It was obviously diseased and depending upon which way the wind blew we had two homes in danger.
To the East we had the historic Pascall house. Those limbs would have demolished it.
To the West we had the Deener house, in whose yard the tree dwelled.
Driving between the two of them was little ole me....but not little ole me if the weather was stormy.
While driving to work a … (14 comments)
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historic homes: Yes, it is haunted and you can advertise it as such. Quitman Arkansas new listing. - 01/13/12 08:35 PM
It's a first. After over 30 years in real estate I had a seller say his house was haunted and I could advertise it that way. So here goes! But he is NOT selling it because it is haunted. He is selling it because of health problems which caused financial problems. Look at this beauty. This is the front.
This house was built around 1900 so that makes it about 112 years old! The present owner has added siding, replacement windows, metal roof, new septic, new wiring, insulation and two central heat and air units. He has lived in … (20 comments)
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historic homes: Another historic house....but not in Searcy AR. It's in Griffithville. - 12/18/11 05:32 PM
You know how kids are? They hold it against you because you never owned a two-story house so they could slide down the banisters like they do in the movies?
I had one like that. Now she's grown-up and in fact, is helping me with my real estate business.
BUT
This house came on the market and she was hopping up and down like a 12 year old because she used to play with kids who lived in that house and she wanted to go preview it!
I had a wee bit of curiosity myself since I heard the envy plea … (10 comments)
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historic homes: I'm a survivor too. How come that mansion gets all the attention in Judsonia Arkansas. - 10/31/11 03:38 PM
If houses could talk, that might be what this house would say. It is located right across the street from the Judsonia Arkansas mansion that survived the 1952 tornado. We have featured the mansion several times in blogs with the latest perhaps being this one. First, let's review the after-the-tornado photograph.
Now look to the right and see the house that has lost a porch but still has the porch rails. And then check out this house that we had listed for sale probably way back in the 80's.
The porch rails still look lovely. The porch has been reattached … (13 comments)
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historic homes: Sears Roebuck house in Searcy AR selling again. 607 West Arch circa 1920's. - 09/16/11 10:28 PM
Searcy Roebuck catalogs had a lot of uses way back a long time ago. To name a few:
1. Put under the baby to make him sit higher in the chair.
2. To cut out paperdolls and choose lots of new outfits for the dolls.
3. To select the kids a pair of shoes to begin school.
4. To read or use in other ways in the outhouse.
5. TO ORDER HOUSES!
Yes, houses could be ordered and they'd come in kits. We still have a Sears Roebuck house in Searcy Arkansas. It was built sometime in the 1920's and was … (16 comments)
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historic homes: OMG!! It's for sale!! Mansion in Judsonia AR that survived the tornado!! - 08/20/11 10:47 AM
The horrors of the Judsonia tornado in 1952 still fill lots of survivor's memories. Several blog posts have been done concerning this tornado but probably the one that is most remembered is the one with the picture showing the mansion in Judsonia standing amidst ruin, proud and pretty. Here's the blog link. http://activerain.com/blogsview/576533/1952-judsonia-ar-tornado-damages-and-survival-of-a-mansion-
and here's the photograph.
Now the house is on the market for $138,000. There is a visual tour if you'd like to see it at this link. The detail on this house is (or was) magnificent. It makes you wonder whether anyone today could actually do a house that … (11 comments)
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historic homes: Splendor once. Now in need of a little help. Old house in White County Arkansas. - 07/09/11 05:50 PM
Don't you just love it when you're driving along and see something interesting?
Kinda unbelievable so that you have to stop and look?
And take a picture?
I did.
This old house must have a history and the history must have some people with class because this house appears to have been a real beauty.
It has as many rooflines as the modern houses have. Gables here and gables there and a nice little dormer in the front. Some happy kids probably looked down from that dormer.
I'm going to let the Searcy Sleuths see if they can locate it … (16 comments)
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historic homes: How does this thing work? Waste....written on top of the drain for this old footed tub? - 06/14/11 10:18 PM
I've seen footed tubs lots of times. Most of the time they've been fitted with new plumbing and the main attraction is the feet. Sorta like this.
But this old tub had plumbing that I didn't understand. I just had to take a better shot at the fixtures.
Waste? Why did that thing say waste and what did it do? Looks like great old copper or brass fixtures that probably date back to the early 1900's. I took another shot.
That's funny. Activerain just turns my picture on the side? And I tried to put it on two times. … (8 comments)
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historic homes: Center on the Square's Cocktails and Cabaret... Searcy Arkansas, night out at Rosehaven. - 05/01/11 09:17 PM
Rosehaven. The invitation said that Center on the Square, our downtown dinner theater which has become so popular and successful, was having a fun night with music, an auction, food and drinks, and presentation of awards. It was to be at Rosehaven.
That was a new name for me. Sounded like a plantation house so I definitely wanted to attend.
And it was a plantation-type house. Within city limits, this house that was first built in the 1800's and added onto a little at a time has become a mansion.
Owners are Cathy Liles and Randy Duncan. Here they are in the … (19 comments)
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historic homes: I'm back in the saddle again! Old song makes me think of this restored house at 402 East Race Searcy Arkansas - 04/28/11 08:19 PM
The old country song that brags about being back in the saddle again keeps running through my mind after attending open house and ribbon cutting at the Choate Law Firm which is now located at 402 East Race Street in what is known as the historic Tom Watkins house built in 1923 and listed on the National Register of historic Homes. Just a few months ago it looked like this. I even wrote a blog about it and its history.
Now it looks like this.
It has been painted up, spruced up, spiffed up and the new owner, Penny Choate, has located … (9 comments)
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historic homes: Historical Oracle Dorothy Warden says house was used as hospital!! She was born there!! - 03/03/11 05:36 PM
Searcy historians love Dorothy Warden's column in the Searcy Daily Citizen each Saturday. Last Saturday she wrote about home hospitals. She was born in a home hospital and was Dr. Martin Hawkins's first baby, she says in the article. The house, she says, is still standing at the location of 402 W Center.
Naturally, I drive by! It's a lovely structure, almost unchanged through the years. In fact, I had an owner contact me a few years back about its value. He showed me through it and I was so impressed by the very "unchangedness" of the house. (How do you like … (25 comments)
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historic homes: Last rites are being held right here on this blog site. Deaths on Center Street, Searcy AR. - 02/04/11 09:12 PM
We might as well say our final good-byes to these two houses on East Center Street. Here is what is left of them. First is 411 East Center.
Second is 403 E Center.
403 East Center was born in 1915 and lived a peaceful existence until 2011. Just days ago I saw people living there. I had to take my final picture from county data because we had no warning of the quick death. I really liked the chimney and the little eyebrows. It sold back in 1991 through a real estate firm and two times since then.
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historic homes: Whew.....it appears the Margaret Pope house, Searcy Arkansas, lives on. - 01/28/11 08:57 PM
The Margaret Pope house in Searcy Arkansas is on Market Street and we drive by it all the time. It looked like this for a long time.
One day I drove by and did a double-take as I saw big construction happening.....or deconstruction possibly.
The work went on and on and on. Stucco came off the front. The house got leveled. And I kept worrying because I thought I'd drive by and the house would be smashed. Now, however, it looks like this.
And curtains have gone up. People have vehicles parked in the yard. I believe it … (13 comments)
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historic homes: Thank you, Penny Choate, for restoring a grand old house on Race Street, Searcy AR - 01/22/11 11:52 AM
One could tell something was going on! Look at the men in those buckets cutting those giant trees.
Sure nuff! Word was out that the old Tom Watkins house located at the corner of North Oak and East Race in Searcy Arkansas, built in the early 20's, had been bought and was to be restored by Attorney Penny Choate of the Choate Law Firm.
Everyone cheered! We were all afraid that the house would be hit by the wrecker's ball. As soon as Attorney Choate had the trees cleared, she got the painters out and started working on the outside. … (10 comments)
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historic homes: It was just a good idea then. Old house saved in Searcy Arkansas. - 11/12/10 08:02 AM
Note this lovely old house.
It's well maintained, brings back memories from a long time ago when folks sat on the porch.
Now look at the house from a little further back.
What do you see? Yep! Apartments. The property was bought by a very popular builder in Searcy AR back in the late 80's or early 90's and the idea was to build apartments on the large parcel of land that is within spittin' distance of downtown Searcy AR. The builder built apartments on either side of the house but saved the house. It was lovely then and … (11 comments)
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historic homes: East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas revisited.....almost..... - 10/04/10 08:14 AM
Reports from people who grew up in Searcy Arkansas prior to the 60's indicate that East Race was a street with big trees, impressive houses and wrap porches in many cases. The mystery for my Searcy readers today is whether they have ever seen this house.
Okay, I'll just go ahead and tell you. This house sat where the Sexton's Grocery Store is today. Reportedly, Safeway (the original grocery store who located there) offered to buy the house and the family who owned it chose to sell.
One family hated to see the beautiful house be razed so they bought … (18 comments)
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historic homes: Another one gone. Take a last look. Give your last goodbye to this Arch Street house. - 09/07/10 12:00 PM
A friend alerted me to this house's demise. She said she drove by and noticed activity and then the next day the whole house was gone. There's nothing but an empty lot. The house was bought about two years ago by the First Presbyterian Church who probably will turn the lot into a parking lot.
I hate, really hate, to see this one go. It appeared to be in mansion-like condition and had a lovely facade.
But here are our last views. One is from Mr. Google's walk down the street. Until he walks again in Searcy Arkansas maybe … (24 comments)
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