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Clayton House
Standing regally in the Belle Grove Historic District, the Clayton House serves as a living history book of Fort Smith’s elegant Victorian period during the city’s frontier beginnings on the border of Indian Territory. The Italianate-style mansion also provides a perfect setting for weddings and private gatherings with its stately parlors and expansive grounds.
The Clayton House provides a step back to 1882, the year William Henry Harrison Clayton moved his family into the antebellum home that he doubled in size and shaped into an Italianate-style masterpiece. It has elaborate Victorian trim, including detailed window surrounds, paneled projecting bays on the front and side, a porch with carved columns and brackets, and delicately turned balusters ringing the porch roof. W. H. H. Clayton served as a local prosecutor and was a member of a family prominent in state politics and is one of the few high-quality houses of the period to survive. It now serves as a museum.
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