Benjamin T. Powell House

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Benjamin T. Powell House
Benjamin T. Powell House is located in Arkansas
Benjamin T. Powell House
Location 305 California Ave., Camden, Arkansas
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Area less than one acre
Built 1859 (1859)
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 74000485[1]
Added to NRHP January 21, 1974

The Benjamin T. Powell House is a historic house at 305 California Avenue in Camden, Arkansas. The two story wood frame house was built in 1859, and is one a few pre-Civil War cotton-magnate houses to survive in the city. The house has a cypress frame, and features a Classical Revival facade with a front gable supported by four round columns sheltering porches with ornamental iron railings. The house was used as a military headquarters by Union Army forces during the Civil War.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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