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The Bozeman House is a five bay Greek &viva1 structure. The house is one and one- i , - ~ k 2 stories w i t h double pile d central hall. A t m room kitchen w i n g on the north- r;sstorn corner of the buildkng makes it e l l shaped %n plan. There is a pedimented . .

: . ~ r t i c ~ on the south (front1 elevation and an ell shaped shed porch across the rear of t h e house and wing. The roof is gdbled w i t h bra pedFmented dormers on the front facade - - and a single d a m r oi.1 the rear. The--are two interior end chimneys. . - .

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pilasters where the portico joins the house. The t w o entxankes, one to the prk i eo and t h e other to the porch, are double doored (four paneled) and have transoms and side- l ights. Two doors open from the east side of t h e house opening on to concrete steps w i t h n.hood above: . . . ..--- - . , - -- -

The soul31 windows,' now one over one appear to have been reglazed. Windows on other cle=-ations are six over six. Ihmr windows are four over four.

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~ r o t i c o i d dormer pediments are full entablatures with pronounced dentils, The cornice across the south elevation is also dentiled. Trim around bhdow& and doors is fluted w i t h corner blocks. Doors are panneled.

- Siding i s flush on porch, portico, and p e d h e n t . Other s iding is weatherboard, 5: ;r

Interior t r i m is flute, l ike that of the exkerior. The wainscots, t w o fire~laces and Eladring ts original: W a l l s are plaster and lath on the ground level and wide h a d i n g on the second Level. The kitchen w i n g is finishied in beveled edge sLding. 'i*m enclosed stairs lead 110 two separated moms above.

The porch has fallen and 'its original past or columns are missing- 1

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The Bozeman House is a frame, one! , m d one-half &r&, tr@ek-Revival dwellkng built . in *e mid 1840's for early Clark County settlez and farmer, Michael Bozemm.

T h e House is Wtinguished by i t s early date of construction, by the integriw and quality of its Greek-Revival detailing and nassing and by its association w i t h Michael Bazeman, m e v af one of the mbst sus~@ss fu l large farming operations in pre-civil war Clark County. . . . .

Michael Bozeman was born in Jones County ~eorgia on August 16, 1808. Re left Georgia fo r Alabama in M19 and in 1835 he c a m to Arkansas, In 1827, he married Luey Ann Browning w i t h whom he had nine children.

( dozeman b u i l t a log cabin on his first tract of land in Clark Comty. In s&sequent .

years, he greatly increased h i s land holdings and t a x records idicaterthat his estate: eventually covered 9,000 acres. By 1852, he was the second leading producer of tmtton : in Clark County and according to h i s biogra?her, Farrar Newberry, Bozeman was repoxted to be w o r t h in excess of a quarter of a mil l ion dollars. Impressive figures for ante- .. bellum Arkansas. A more intimate picture of Bazeman' s ~lantation is revealad in an 1857 plantation journal w h i c h was discovered in the Bozeman house. The journal lists a large variety of crops g m on the plantation, and Newberry states that it ''reveals the meticulous care he gave to e w r y detail of the management af h i s growing enterpr5seY

Bozsmm died on May 26, 1883.

Bozeman's position of inportance both as an early settler and as a land pmprieter is x e v ~ a l e d i n a listing df his civic ventures. He was a charter member of the B e t h a l B a p t i s t church formed in 1836 and in tlhe same year he represented his church in the establishment of the Saline Baptist Asseciation, an organization composed of s i x south:, C e n t r a l Arkansas Baptist Churches (with 78 total members) . It: was the first such -.

c=soeiation south of the Arkansas Rives, In 1847 he helped to foun& O&l'aaB Academy perhaps the f i r s t painted, frame, school house in Clark County. Bozeman was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 1853.

Zuilt at a cast: of $1,500.00 ca.1847, the Bozeman house fs one of the o ldes t s.~rvivi%ng structures in C l b k County, and is certanly one of the oldest-el3l3it=ing"such'd hi3h- level of workmanship. Newberry indicates that f i e home was constructed of oak timbers

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Today, the home,though vacant, retains the integrity of i ts o r i g i n a l settZng,design

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and material of c&struction. S e t w e l l back off Highway 26, the surmundfng l a n d s c a p is rural. pasture and forrest. The huse itself , follows the basic greek revfval plan of Eow rooms w i t h central hall.; however, a two-xoon kitchen w i n g off the western side

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sraented, portico on the south elevation is sustained by four fluted box columns. There are two fluted pilasters where the portico joins the house. A dentel cornice tops the facade (south elevation} and the portico. .The entrance is double-leaf w i t h transom 1- and side-lights- Alterat ions to both the exterior and interoir are minimal, An ell shaped rear porch has fallen and its original supports are missing.

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The Michael Bozernan House is a Greek Revival style s t o r y and a h a l f frame house s e t on a brick p i e r founda t ion with a four column portico, a gable roof with two dormers on t h e main facade, two chimneys, and a rear wing with an e l l - s h a p e d gallery porch.

The exterior of the house is covered w i t h clapboard exposed s i x inches to the weather. The entablature across t h e m a i n facade has a notched frieze board simulating dentils which is continued around the f r o n t portico as well as under the rake cornice of t h e pediment. The front por t i co has four square columns with pilasters against t h e main facade and h a s simple v e r t i c a l grooves that give the appearance of f l u t i n g . T h e columns have p l a i n capitals and bases and the portico f loo r , although undoubtedly replaced, is constructed of wood, The two front dormers have n i c e l y proportioned pediments wZth a notched frieze board of smaller scale resembling dentils as en t h e main entabla ture . The rear dormer has a simple plain gable.

The roof a r i g i n a l J y covered w i t h wood shingles is now covered w i t h a s p h a l t sh ing l e s . The'rnain roof terminates at either end with a gable and the rear wing also terminates w i t h the gable. The ell-shaped rear porch an piazza has a shed roof.

The main entrance under the f r o n t portico is double doors w i t h s i d e l i g h t s and transom and each door has two continous

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vertical panels in each. The windows in the main house are - single l i g h t double hung sash which appears to be unoriginal o I

and were probably - six l i g h t double hung sash originally. The z t w o f r o n t dormers still have six light double hung s a s h as does the rear dormer and the windows in the rear wing are six l i g h t double hung sash. The rear e n t r a n c e to the main center hall matches the front main entrance exactly. One window opens from the main house onto the rear p iazza and 4x0 doors f r o m t h e rear w i n g opens o n t o t h e rear piazza.

I The two chimneys are of brick pa r t i a l l y stuccoed and were

probably origfnally stoccaed completely. They each serve t w o i fireplaces back to back one in each of the four main rooms 05 i the house.

The floor plan is a typical Antebellum plan w i t h a twelve foot w i d e c e n t e r hall from front to back and t w o rooms on either s i d e of the h a l l . The rear wing has two more roams with con- necting doors from the main room of the house to which t h e wing

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is attached. The most interesting feature of t h e interior of t hd 1 house a r e the two separate staircases b u i l t into c l o s e t type areas to the s i d e of t h e main chimneys o n e on either s i d e of 1 t h e house. Winding s t a i r s l e a d up t o each of the t w o main rooms

L I on t h e second floor. These second f l oo r rooms are separated 1 by s o l i d walls alzowing no v i s i t i n g between the males and female4

on opposite s i d e s . Downstairs rooms have grooved architraves

i I w i t h corner blocks and a three foot wainseoat in most of t h e / raorns. Walls and ceilings downstairs are plaster. U p s t a i r s the rooms are finished in w i d e b a r d s with p l a i n t r i m . The interior

( of t h e house as a whole is very spacious but the trim is very

i p l a i n throughout t h e house with no mouldings of a n y kind. ! I

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a handsom Antebellum hame, The exterior detailing though not technicaLly correct is sufficient to give the house a t r u e I

classical appearance and the proportions are good- The fact 1 I ' i

j tha t no par t of the house sags nor is out of line a t t e s t s to its

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T h e Michael Bozeman house ( 1 8 4 7 ) is a pr ime example of I l

a t y p i c a l antebellum home, reflectinq the popula r Greek Revive1 style adopted by r i c h p l an t e r s during t h i s per iod , T h e house has remained styljstally unchanged.

The house is p r i m a d y assocl~ted w i t h !-Kchael Bozeman 11808-18831, an e a r l y settler oE Clzrk ColmCy. Sozeman moved from Alabama to an acreage s i x m i l e s w e s t of t h e present Arka- d e l p h i a i n 1835 to reqa in h i s h e a l t h and to prove that cotton could p r o f i t a b l y be ra ised that f a r n o r t h , He erected a sub- stantial log ho .~se on arrival'and l a t e r Ic.1847), as h e w a s becoming affluent, he paid $f,5CC and one slave for t h e labor r e q u i r e d t o construct t h e Mzernx House 7:::~ere he l ived for the res t of h i s l i f e ,

Michae l Bozeaan is noted f o r his success as a p l a n t e r , a c t i v e i n t e r e s t in t h e church znd public education, his loyalt hij to the s o u t h d u r i n q t h e C i v i l idar, and h i s excellent record in / t h e A r k a n s a s S t a t e Senate . i

At t h e outbreak of t h e C i v i l Kar, E3ozeman w a s h a u l i n g hun- d reds of bales of co t ton f o r shipr .ent v i z the Ouachi ta , Red,

I. and TJlississiawi Rivers to New OrPeans and paying taxes on m o r e ,

i t h a n 9,000 a&s of land, He was r epor t ed to be w o r t h in ex- cess of a quzrter nillion dollars. Fe felt that it was h i s !

obl iga t ion to a&e his planztion t o t a l l y p roduc t i ve f o r the Confederacy.

I Michael Bozernan was a devout C h r i s t i a n and w i t h i n a year

of h i s a r r i v a l in Arkansas he a ided in t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n of ! , the Mt. Bethel Eaptist C h u r c h which is s t i l l ac t ive , being the

oldes t church in C l a r k County. He remained act ive in church ' organization until h i s death. i In 1847 Bozenan was one of the f ounde r s of Oakland A c z - demy, t3e first school in C l a r k County to be built of boards, painted, and have g l a s s windows. The school remained a c t i v e u n t i l it was consolidated with t3e Gurdon Public School in 1946.

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I AS a state senator (18531, Bozeman is noted as serving

modestly but e f f i c i e n t l y , consistently supporting bills which I

were in the best i n t e r e s t of h i s district 2nd state. I

The Bozeman House, historically, w a s known as a center , of social and conmunity a c t i v i t y . C r o q u e t w a s played on the

lam, church and school committies assembled at the h o u s c and i

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in times of dread, such as the C i v i l War, r.eighbors would gat'qer for m u t u a l condolences. I

1 Goodspeedrs Southern Arkansas, 1890. Chicago. 127-128. I Xu'erp.lberry, Farrar , "Clzrk County" s Vlaantation PrinceT , *'

Arkansas Democrat, Sunday Magazine S e c t i o n , December 13, 1959 U,S, Bureau of t h e Census, Seventh C e n s u s of the Tjnited States:

1850. Population.' " E a r l y C l a r k C o ~ ~ z y , From t5e Ear ly Times to 2942 , " . The Clark

County His to r i c a l J o u r h a l , Vol. 1, No. I (Spring 1973 1. 14.

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L A P P R O X I ~ * T E A S R C A C E OF ~ O M ~ H ~ T E ~ P R O P E R T Y : +--an one acre I C n

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I Ed Baxter; Sta f f - - - - . -- . - = I / O R C I M I I A T I O I I ; D A Y = I

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evr:ustcd sccording to t*r,,c criteria ar.d proccchrrs set

forth by S-r ions l ;>ark Servics. *;he rccorr.menEed ' , Chiel, O f h c o oCtirchec:o,*y and Hici:or~c r>rcacrvdlron '

levcl of s i .cai i .cu~c oi this n o m ~ n a t ~ o n is: !

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