Headquarters House

Also known as the Tebbetts House, this frame home with Greek revival design was built in 1853 by Matilda and Jonas March Tebbetts as their family home in Fayetteville. Its design was the same as the William Baxter House, which stood across Dickson Street at about the location of the present-day Washington County Courthouse. Jonas … More Headquarters House

Ridge House

The Ridge House was built about 1836 and is the oldest known building still standing in Fayetteville. Sarah Bird Northrup Ridge, widow of John Ridge, a Cherokee leader who was slain during intertribal conflict, purchased the house in 1840 and moved her family out of the Indian Territory to Fayetteville. Sarah Ridge helped organize the … More Ridge House

Mrs. Young Building

The Mrs. Young Building on the Fayetteville Square was built and first owned by Mrs. Sarah Jessie Young. She moved to Fayetteville in 1877 with her husband, a traveling dentist. They divorced in 1883, and she began work as a studio photographer, among the earliest in Fayetteville. In 1887, she contracted to construct a building … More Mrs. Young Building

Heffelfinger-Freund House

Designed by the noted Fayetteville architect John Williams, the Heffelfinger-Freund House was listed in Arkansas Register of Historic Places on April 3, 2019, for its importance as a good residential example of the Mid-Century Modern style of architecture. In 1955, William Agnew Heffelfinger and Charlie Lee Bird Heffelfinger hired Williams, founder of the Department of … More Heffelfinger-Freund House