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BUILT FOR WELL KNOWN BUSINESSMAN MR. A.L. MORGAN IN 1918, THE MORGAN HOME REPRESENTS ONE OF THE EARLIER AND MORE EXPANSIVE OF THE CRAFTSMAN STRUCTURES IN TOWN. NOTE THE AMPLE PORCH WITH SQUARE BRICK COLUMN SUPPORTS- AND ALSO THE DETAIL IN THE STAIRWAY TO THE STREET.(MUCH RESTORATION HAS BEEN DONE BY THE CURRENT OWNERS AND RESIDENTS, GEORGE AND SANDRA ALESHIRE).

BUILT FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMAN, FELIX M. BIVENS, THE BIVENS HOUSE ( 1925) SURVIVES WITH NO CHANGES TO THE EXTERIOR. THIS EXAMPLE OF THE CRAFTSMAN STYLE REMAINED IN THE BIVENS FAMILY UNTIL 1999. CURRENTLY BEING RESTORED BY OWNERS BILL AND CAROL HAWKINS

SUCH CRAFTSMAN FEATURES AS WIDE EAVE OVERHANG, EXPOSED RAFTERS, AND SQUARE COLUMNS AS PORCH SUPPORTS ARE SEEN IN THE DUNN HOUSE, BUILT BETWEEN 1922 AND 1924 IN THE OIL BOOM DAYS FOR MRS. J. DUNN ON THE SITE WHERE A PREVIOUS HOUSE HAD BURNED. THE OBSERVER SHOULD RECOGNIZE SIMILARITIES TO MANY OTHER STRUCTURES IN TOWN DATING FROM THAT TIME.

The Walls-Hussman house first appeared on the tax records in 1926 under the name of Virgil N. Walls, valued at $4000.-then a substantial sum. It was built on land acquired from prominent banker, investor, and developer Henry Berg, who lived two blocks to the eastand had recently acquired vacant tracks on the new section of Clifton Street. One of the town's more attractive structures of modest scale , the walls house would subsequently be the home of such well known residents as dry goods merchant Ben King (1930's) and newspaper publisher Walter Hussman (1940's-1950's) . Hussman was then owner of the Camden News and later heir to the multi-city Palmer newspaper holdings. The house was a childhood home for Walter Hussman,Jr. now publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and owner of other media interest in the state. The house is cross-gabled brick structure with an upper half story. It is distinguished in the neighborhood by its Spanish style tile roof. A square sunroom projects from under the front gable and is covered by a flat roof with tiled pitched eaves. Craftsman marks are seen in triangular knee braces and exposed rafters

The home is currently owned by Bill Ainsworth and David Matthews.

This house was built in 1928-1929 by the Bergs. The one story brick is front gabled with a wide porch under a secondary roof. In Craftsman mode, the roofs are low in pitch and the porch is supported by four brick piers topped with wooden columns but with the middle two flanked by larger ones. Unlike many Craftsman structures, the eaves are boxed. The house is owned by the William McCoy family.

This is a two story stucco clad duplex with one apartment on each floor. The house,dating from 1926 or soon after, is cross gabled with an irregular rectangular footprintbut with a projection extending across much of the western side. Each apartment opens onto a rectangular porch extending across the center half of the front facade. The two level porch is supported by massive square stucco piers and is covered by a hip roof. Entrance doors to each apartment open on either side of the downstairs porch and are fronted by concrete stairs covered by shed roofs. Triangular knee braces at several points and exposed rafters provide Craftsman accents that typify many other contemporary structures.