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Isaac Block House

Coordinates: 35°13′35″N 90°47′19″W / 35.22639°N 90.78861°W / 35.22639; -90.78861
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Isaac Block House
Isaac Block House is located in Arkansas
Isaac Block House
Location in Arkansas
Isaac Block House is located in the United States
Isaac Block House
Location in United States
Location404 E. Hamilton St., Wynne, Arkansas
Coordinates35°13′35″N 90°47′19″W / 35.22639°N 90.78861°W / 35.22639; -90.78861
Arealess than one acre
Built1885 (1885)
Built byBlock, Isaac
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.98000851[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 15, 1998

The Isaac Block House is a historic house at 404 East Hamilton Street in Wynne, Arkansas. It is a 1+12-story wood-frame structure, locally notable for its fine Queen Anne styling. On the exterior this is evident in the wraparound porch, the use of fish-scale wood shingles, a projecting gable with carved decoration, and projecting bays that are similarly decorated. The house was built in Wittsburg in about 1885 by Isaac Block, a merchant son of German Jewish immigrants. After the railroad bypassed Wittsburg, Block decided to move the house to Wynne, a feat accomplished in the early 1900s by cutting the house into sections and hauling them on oversized wagons to the present location.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Isaac Block House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-12.