Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 74000485 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | Built 1859 (1859) Opened 1859 Added to NRHP 21 January 1974 | |
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Location 305 California Ave., Camden, Arkansas | ||
The Benjamin T. Powell House is a historic house at 305 California Avenue in Camden, Arkansas. The two story wood frame house was built in 1859, and is one a few pre-Civil War cotton-magnate houses to survive in the city. The house has a cypress frame, and features a Classical Revival facade with a front gable supported by four round columns sheltering porches with ornamental iron railings. The house was used as a military headquarters by Union Army forces during the Civil War.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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