Minaret Manor

844 W. Semmes, Osceola, Arkansas. County/parish: Mississippi.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 24, 2017. NRIS 100000554.

3 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Cox-Florida Mansion
  • Florida Mansion
  • MS04 I 1

From Wikipedia:

Minaret Manor

Minaret Manor is the original name of “The Florida Mansion” a historic mansion house at 844 West Semmes Avenue in Osceola, Arkansas. Set on a landscape 5-acre (2.0 ha) parcel (reduced by subdivision from the original 15), it is a large 2+12-story brick Tudor Revival building. The lower portions of the house are finished in brick laid in stretcher bond, while gabled upper areas exhibit half-timbering with brick laid in a diagonal basket weave pattern. At the right front side of the main facade is a three-story turret with conical roof. The house was built in 1948 for Andrew J. Florida, the principal owner of a real estate empire that extend across eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

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