Dumas Commercial Historic District

Historic district in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place


Dumas Commercial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

33°53′22″N 91°29′32″W / 33.88944°N 91.49222°W / 33.88944; -91.49222
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1905 (1905)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Early Commercial
NRHP reference No.	07000446^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 22, 2007

The Dumas Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of the rural community of Dumas, Arkansas, United States, in the Mississippi River delta region of southeastern Arkansas. The town of Dumas was established in 1904, after the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway was built through the farm of William Dumas. The town's oldest surviving commercial building, the Porter Grocery, was one of several built by David Porter between 1905 and 1938. The historic district includes eight noteworthy buildings, including the Merchants & Farmers Bank building, a Colonial Revival National Register-listed building designed by Charles L. Thompson. All of the buildings occupy a single city block of South Main Street, between Choctaw and Waterman Streets. Most of the buildings of interest were built in the 1920s, and are vernacular brick commercial buildings.^[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Dumas Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2014.