pumping station houses: Stark! Description for Booth Rd building. Beautiful. Searcy AR.
- 07/31/21 12:02 PM
Stark! Beautifully unadorned building in Searcy AR.
Driving along Booth Road might lead you past this building and you can't help staring and admiring it. It can only be described as STARK. Extremely simple. Sternly plain. It is always perfectly maintained with the property mowed but it has no landscaping
So I did a little sleuthing. I found that it was moved onto the property from the pumping station. Our "pumping station" is located on Highway 267 in Searcy but there is reportedly one in Georgetown also. The person who moved it had been transferred to our town to work at the pumping … (1 comments)
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pumping station houses: Pumping Station house. A test for you? What kind of house is this?
- 08/05/09 09:23 AM
This may be of interest to Searcy history buffs. What kind of house is this?
I call it a "pumping station house." If you know Searcy you'll probably remember that these houses were brought into the city of Searcy or around the city of Searcy and set up on various lots.
The pumping station referred to the gas pumping station on Highway 267 South. My understanding is that these were sorta like employee "on base" housing and were given away or sold mighty cheap to either employees or whoever would move them off the premises.
They date back to around the 50's and … (12 comments)
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