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Melvin Chrisco House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
05001082

Added to NRHP
  
28 September 2005

Built
  
1947 (1947)

Opened
  
1947

Melvin Chrisco House

Location
  
237 Alvin Brown Rd., Damascus, Arkansas

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman, Minimal Traditional

MPS
  
Mixed Masonry Buildings of Silas Owens, Sr. MPS

The Melvin Chrisco House is a historic house at 237 Alvin Brown Road in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and an exterior of stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A multi-arched gabled-roofed porch shelters the front entrance. The house was built in 1947, its exterior finished by the regionally prominent African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr. It exhibits hallmarks of Owens's work, including herringbone patterning in the stone work, arched porch openings, and the use of cream brick in quoined patterns on corners and openings.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Melvin Chrisco House Wikipedia