Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 71000123 Added to NRHP 10 September 1971 | Built 1836 (1836) Opened 1836 | |
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Address N 3rd St, Van Buren, AR 72956, USA Similar King Opera House - Arkansas, Wilhauf House, Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith National Historic S, Miss Laura's Visitor Ce Profiles | ||
Uafs drennen scott house
The Drennen-Scott House is a historic house museum on North 3rd Street in Van Buren, Arkansas. It is a single-story log structure, finished in clapboards, with a side-gable roof that has a slight bell-cast shape due to the projection of the roof over the front porch that extends across the width of its main block. The house was built in 1836 by John Drennen, one of Van Buren's first settlers. Drennen and his brother-in-law David Thompson were responsible for platting the town, and Drennen was politically active, serving in the territorial and state legislatures, and at the state constitutional convention. The house remained in the hands of Drennen descendants until it was acquired by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, which operates it as a house museum.
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The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.