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Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
00001361

Added to NRHP
  
15 November 2000

Built
  
1946 (1946)

Opened
  
1946

Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District

Location
  
US 65, Silver Hill, Arkansas

MPS
  
Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS

The Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District encompasses a historic tourist accommodation on United States Route 65 in central northern Searcy County, Arkansas, just south of the Buffalo National River. Located behind the Silver Hill Float Service on the west side of the highway stand six stone and timber cabins, with large standstone blocks and plank doors on the fronts, and shed roofs obscured by parapets. Built in 1946 by Harry Willmering, these vernacular structures are representative of tourist accommodations built in the period after World War II to cater to the automobile-based vacationing public.

The cabins were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District Wikipedia


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