Smith-McCurry House

	Smith-McCurry House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Nearest city	El Dorado, Arkansas
Coordinates	33°13′16″N 92°35′26″W / 33.22123°N 92.59068°W
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1867
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman, Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	92001394
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1992

The Smith-McCurry House is a historic house on Arkansas Highway 15, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of El Dorado, Arkansas. The oldest portion of the house is a single-story dog trot house that was built in 1867 by Lawson Smith for his son David Carroll Smith. The house was inherited in 1919 by Mamie Smith McCurry, notable as a prominent investor in early oil exploration in Union County. The third well in the county, a successful gusher, was drilled on her land. She then invested further in oil exploration, forming a partnership with Bruce Hunt, a geologist, and the drillers Hensy and Zoda, and eventually participating in exploratory drilling operations in seven states. She used proceeds from her oil successes to expand the homestead and add then-popular Craftsman details to it.^[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Smith-McCurry House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-05-10.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Smith-McCurry House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-05-10.

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