Lightle House (605 Race Avenue, Searcy, Arkansas)

	Lightle House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Location	605 Race Ave., Searcy, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°15′1″N 91°43′50″W / 35.25028°N 91.73056°W
Built	1925
Architect	Charles L. Thompson
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Thompson, Charles L., Design Collection TR
NRHP reference No.	82000958
Added to NRHP	December 22, 1982

The Lightle House, a historic house at 605 Race Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas contains two stories, a full basement, and a full attic. Its brick facade attaches to a reinforced concrete foundation which supports a tile hip roof with 1924 Ludovici tiles. Designed by Charles L. Thompson, it has plans dated December 1923, so construction started in 1924 and continued until the Edward Lightle family moved into the house in April 1925, a date documented on the underside of a garden urn presently located under a wrought iron gazebo in the back yard.

The house is an elongated version of a somewhat standard Colonial Revival plan produced by Thompson and Harding, with a porte-cochere at one end, and an elaborate entry, with sidelight windows, and pilasters supporting an entablature and arced pediment. Though made to look original, the present back yard balcony is not original but replaced a rotted wood balcony added in 1996 when the house was renovated to serve as a bed & breakfast.

That renovation also enclosed the second floor sleeping porch. Presently, it has seven bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, as well as a commercial kitchen, two dining rooms, and three rooms used for office space.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "NRHP nomination for Lightle House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-26.

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