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This house does not look like Searcy Arkansas. So what's its history?

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

One can't help noticing this house as one drives down East Market Street.  It's at the corner of Market and Moss and right behind the Kroger store.  It sticks out like the "sore thumb" that southerners describe.

Rock house on Moss St

For one thing it has a flat roof and all Southern people know that flat roofs are asking for leaks.

Secondly, it is short.  Whoever built it could probably stand flat-footed and stack those rocks.

Thirdly, it has some class.  Look at those curves on the windows and at the entrance.

The court house says it was built in 1945 and has 699 sq. ft. of living space.

When I drove by with Hubby (life-time Searcy resident) one day and asked him if that used to be a honky tonk he replied, "Heck no, my momma and daddy used to live in it."  So it must have been a rental property at that time and also now.

I still think it should have a more colorful background.  How about it, Searcy Sleuths?  Know anything about this one?

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Charles Edwards Bentonville
Coldwell Banker Harris McHaney & Faucette 479-253-3796 - Bentonville, AR
AR REALTOR, Bentonville Real Estate Agent and Broker

Barbara, Kind of a sweet looking old place but very unusual I'll admit.

We have become very finicky about where we live and what we'll live in. Growing up in the sixties we had less stringent requirements than nowadays for sure. Wouldn't you agree?

Sep 18, 2010 03:55 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Barbara, this looks like another nutsy house for Nutsy :)

Sep 18, 2010 04:40 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

That house is an odd duck. Is it typical of houses in Searcy, Arkansas, well, why not. Look at the grand location. My thought is it was built by a craftsman with limited resourses so that was as big as he could afford. What a hoot that Dude's parents lived there at one time. Love it!

Market at Moss

Sep 18, 2010 05:37 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Charles Edwards, you've gotta go back further than the 60's for my growing up and boy!  did we ever have a different set of requirements.  That house would be a palace.

Charles Buell, I honestly thought the same time.  He'd look so cute on the top of that house with his little tail curled up!

Don, thanks for the google view.  You are probably right about someone doing as much as they could.  Now I'm picturing a man who could set rocks and he could just go pick them up in anybody's woods and he put them around his little house.  Until someone gives us the true story we just imagine.

Sep 18, 2010 06:55 AM
Anonymous
Mary Dunn

When I left Searcy in 1991 this house was occupied by Alvin and Lela McCollum.  It was owned by the older of their two daughters, Lavelle.  I believe she lived in Beebe at the time.  The McCollum's younger daughter was in my class, 1960 and Lavelle was probably five or so years older.

Sep 18, 2010 07:41 AM
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Ruth Vogt
Fairway Independent Mortgage, LLS. Equal Housing Opportunity. Regulated by the Division of Real Estate. - Colorado Springs, CO
719-592-0855 www.ReverseLoansInColorado.com

Gotta love those pics that show history.... if WE don't care about who will? Thanks for sharing!

Sep 18, 2010 08:46 AM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

Thanks, for the history of the house, Mary Dunn.  Lavelle MCollum graduated with us in the SHS Class of '54.  I understand from her cousin, Pernell Akridge Weir, that she still lives in Searcy.  I'll see if I can't get in touch with her and find out more about the house.

I've passed by it many times but never gave it a second glance.  It IS interesting, isn't it?  Almost looks as if there isn't a roof!

Sep 18, 2010 11:46 AM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Mary Dunn, thanks for helping with the history of this unique house.

Ruth, I agree with you.

Anita, I don't know how you could pass this house without noticing.  It is so different.  Surely someone will remember the history.  The Sleuths are slipping.....

Sep 18, 2010 01:09 PM
Rita Fong
RE/MAX REAL ESTATE TODAY, Executive Broker 901-488-9590 - Marion, AR
Realtor - Marion Arkansas Homes for Sale

It is a very unusual looking house.  That's so funny your hubby's parents used to live there, how co-incident!

Sep 18, 2010 04:15 PM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Godmother,

My great, great Dano Boone Wallenda lived there I am so very sure.

Nutsy

Sep 18, 2010 04:20 PM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Rita, it was rather surprising.

Nutsy, that's a handsome guy...that Dano Boonie fellow.  Maybe you need to copy his dress instead of wearing that stupid weinie suit.

Sep 19, 2010 02:21 AM
Anonymous
Luke Jones

My wife, Jenna, just told me that a modern classroom is required to have at least 900 square feet of space.

Sep 23, 2010 02:30 PM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Luke, that's a big room!  That means the schools have to have lots of square footage!!  What does Jenna teach?

Sep 23, 2010 02:46 PM
Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Barbara ~ Love this house! I'm always drawn to houses that have personality - and this one has plenty.

Liz

Sep 26, 2010 02:32 PM
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