305 California Ave., Camden, Arkansas. County/parish: Ouachita.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 21, 1974. NRIS 74000485.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Benjamin T. Powell House is a historic house at 305 California Avenue in Camden, Arkansas. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1859, and is one a few pre-Civil War cotton-magnate houses to survive in the city. The house has a cypress frame, and features a Classical Revival facade with a front gable supported by four round columns sheltering porches with ornamental iron railings. The house was used as a military headquarters by Union Army forces during the Civil War.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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