Dean House, Texarkana

Name: Dean House
Address: Texarkana, United States

#24 among attractions in Texarkana

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The Dean House is a historic house at 1520 Beech Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame house, built in 1911 for Thomas Mercer Dean, a local farmer and lumberman. Its principal distinguishing feature is its large Colonial Revival portico, with paired two-story Tuscan columns supporting an elaborate entablature. Porches wrap around the north and east sides of the house, and there is a porte-cochère at the southern corner. ()

Built: 1911 (114 years ago)Coordinates: 33°26'19"N, 94°2'19"W

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Beech Street Historic DistrictTexarkana United States

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Dean House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Ace of Clubs House, Museum of Regional History, Four States Auto Museum, Canaan Baptist Church.

1.1 miS
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Ace of Clubs House, Texarkana
27 min walk • The Ace of Clubs House is a historic house museum in Texarkana, Texas. The house is distinctively shaped like a club, from a deck of playing cards, with three octagon-shaped wings and a fourth rectangular wing adjoining at a central octagon-shaped stair hall.
1.2 miS
Museum, History museum
Museum of Regional History, Texarkana
30 min walk • The Museum of Regional History is a local history museum in Texarkana, Texas. It is the first and oldest museum in the Texarkana metropolitan area; it was established in 1971. It is located in the Offenhauser Insurance Building, which was built in 1879, making it the oldest brick building in the city.
1 miS
Museum
Four States Auto Museum, Texarkana
26 min walk • The Four States Auto Museum is an automobile museum in Texarkana, Arkansas. It was established in 2004 and chartered as a 501 organization in the State of Arkansas. The museum is located on a site formerly used for wagon and automobile body construction.
0.5 miS
Church
Canaan Baptist Church, Texarkana
13 min walk • The Canaan Baptist Church is a historic church at the junction of Laurel and 10th Streets in Texarkana, Arkansas. The single-story brick church was built in 1929 for an African-American congregation established in 1883. The building was designed by S. C.
0.8 miS
Specialty museum, History museum, Museum
P. J. Ahern Home, Texarkana
22 min walk • The Patrick J. Ahern House is a historic house located at 403 Laurel Street in Texarkana, Arkansas.
1.2 miN
City
Texarkana metropolitan area, Texarkana
32 min walk • The Texarkana metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is a two-county region anchored by the twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas, and encompassing the surrounding communities in Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas.