Bacon Hotel
Bacon Hotel | |
Location in Arkansas Location in United States | |
| Location | Homestead Rd. at jct. with RR tracks, SE corner, Whitehall, Arkansas |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 35°28′48″N 90°44′5″W / 35.48000°N 90.73472°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Architect | James Bacon |
| Architectural style | Folk Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 95001437[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 13, 1995 |
The Bacon Hotel, also known as the Sunrise Hotel, is a historic hotel building at the southeast corner of Railroad and Homestead Roads in Whitehall, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof and a two-story porch extending across its front. The porch is supported by spindled wooden posts, and the front gable end features a large carved sunburst design. There are four guest rooms on each floor; those on the second level are accessed via outside stairs.[2]
The hotel was built by James William Bacon in 1912 to accommodate timber company executives and salesman during the area's timber boom,[3] It is one of the few surviving reminders of that period and cited in the National Registry as one of the state's finer railroad-era Folk Victorian-style hotels.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995,[1] at which time it had been reported to be functionally vacant since the 1950s.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for Bacon Hotel". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
- ^ "Off The Beaten Path: Hotel". The Jonesboro Sun. January 24, 1996. p. 5A. Retrieved December 6, 2025.