W.H.H. Clayton House, Fort Smith

Name: W.H.H. Clayton House
Address: 514 N 6th St, Fort Smith, 72901-2006, United States
Telephone: +1 479-783-3000

#4 among attractions in Fort Smith

Top attraction, Museum, History museum

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The W.H.H. Clayton House, now the Clayton House Museum, is a historic house museum at 514 North 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a projecting front clipped-gable section. It has elaborate Victorian trim, including detailed window surrounds, paneled projecting bays on the front and side, and a porch with carved columns and brackets, and delicately turned balusters ringing the porch roof. The house was built in 1882 for W. H. H. Clayton, who served as a local prosecutor and was member of family prominent in state politics, and is one of the few high-quality houses of the period to survive. It is now a museum. ()

Built: 1874 (150 years ago)Coordinates: 35°23'30"N, 94°25'15"W

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514 N 6th StDowntown Fort SmithFort Smith 72901-2006 United States

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+1 479-783-3000

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W.H.H. Clayton House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith Museum of History, Belle Grove Historic District.

0.6 miW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith
17 min walk • Fort Smith National Historic Site is a National Historic Site located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, along the Arkansas River. The first fort at this site was established by the United States in 1817, before this area was established as part of Indian Territory.
0.7 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum
Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith
17 min walk • The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line. The museum opened in 1985, and operation of its streetcar line began in 1991.
0.5 miSW
Museum, History museum
Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith
14 min walk • The Fort Smith Museum of History is located at 320 Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The museum is devoted to presenting the history of Fort Smith and the surrounding region.
~300 ftSW
Park
Belle Grove Historic District, Fort Smith
2 min walk • Belle Grove Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of the central business district of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This area became an affluent residential area not long after Fort Smith was established in 1842, and was most heavily developed between about 1870 and 1930.
0.5 miSW
City hall
Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Fort Smith
14 min walk • The Sebastian County Courthouse/Fort Smith City Hall is a historic civic building at 100 South 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large four-story stone and concrete structure with modest Art Deco styling, designed by Fort Smith architects E. Chester Nelson, T. E.
0.7 miSW
Cemetery
Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith
19 min walk • Fort Smith National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Garland Avenue and Sixth Street in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It encompasses 22.3 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 13,127 interments.
0.5 miSW
Memorial
Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Fort Smith
13 min walk • The Ft. Smith Confederate Monument stands on the grounds of the Sebastian County Courthouse at the junction of 6th and Rogers Streets in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
1.2 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Echols Memorial Christian Church, Fort Smith
31 min walk • The Echols Memorial Christian Church, now home to the Vietnamese Baptist Church, is a historic church building at 2801 Alabama Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
0.4 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
New Theatre, Fort Smith
12 min walk • The New Theatre is a historic theatre building at 11 North 10th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Beaux Arts building was built in 1911, and was supposedly modeled on the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.
1.2 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Smith
31 min walk • The First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic church building at 1115 North D Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large limestone structure, built in a cruciform plan with a pair of towers flanking its main facade.
1 miSE
Mission Revival Style architecture
Tillman Shaw House, Fort Smith
26 min walk • The Tillman Shaw House is a historic house at 500 South 19th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The house is an architecturally eclectic two-story brick structure, set on an artificially raised plot in a neighborhood of predominantly smaller houses.

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Nearby attractions include Belle Grove Historic District, Fort Smith (2 min walk), New Theatre, Fort Smith (12 min walk), West Garrison Avenue Historic District, Fort Smith (12 min walk), Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Fort Smith (13 min walk).