Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 79000462 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | Built 1895 (1895) Opened 1895 Added to NRHP 7 August 1979 | |
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Location 923 N. 13th St., Fort Smith, Arkansas | ||
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The William J. Murphy House is a historic house at 923 North 13th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a rectangular 2-1/2 story brick structure, with basically symmetrical massing by asymmetric details. The main roofline is hipped toward the front facade, with a pair of similarly-sized projections on either side of a central raised hip-roof porch at the third level. The left projection has larger single windows at the first and second levels, and a small window recessed within a jerkin-headed gable pediment. The right projection has two narrower windows on the first and second levels, and a small hipped element projecting from the top of that section's hip roof. A single-story porch extends across the width, supported by paired columns, with an entablature decorated by garlands. The house, built about 1895, is one of Fort Smith's most sophisticated expressions of Classical Revival architecture. It was built by a local manufacturer of saddles and harnesses.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.