{{short description|Historic house in White Hall, Arkansas, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Bellingrath House | nrhp_type = | image = Bellingrath House.jpg | caption = | location = 7520 Dollarway Rd., White Hall, Arkansas | locmapin = Arkansas#USA | map_caption = Location in Arkansas##Location in United States | built = {{Start date|1932}} | architect = Seligam, Mitchell | architecture = Tudor Revival | added = December 1, 1994 | area = {{convert|9.93|acre|ha}} | refnum = 94001410<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
The '''Bellingrath House''' is a historic house at 7520 Dollarway Road in White Hall, Arkansas. It is a large {{frac|2|1|2}}-story masonry structure, built out of brick, stone, and half-timbered stucco in the Tudor Revival style. Its basically rectangular form is augmented by rectangular projecting sections and gabled elements of varying sizes. It has four chimneys, some brick and some fieldstone, and windows in a variety of configurations and sizes. One of the most notable features of the house is a massive fireplace built of rubble stone at the southern end of the house.<ref name=NRHP /> The home is nestled away from the road, behind a pond, on a plot of land just under 10 acres.<ref>Jefferson County Arkansas Property Records, Parcel ID 970-13926-000</ref>
The house was commissioned by '''Ferd Bellingrath''' (b. 1906 d. 1941), owner of a local Coca-Cola bottling company, and is one of the community's most architecturally sophisticated houses.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/JE0549-pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bellingrath House|publisher=Arkansas Preservation|author=Kenneth Story |date=October 17, 1994 |accessdate=2015-11-05}}</ref> It was designed by local architect Mitchell Seligam in 1932. Building of the home and surrounding structures began in 1934 and were completed in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bellingrath House - Encyclopedia of Arkansas|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7663|website=www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net|accessdate=May 8, 2017}}</ref> The home still features the original tennis court.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.<ref name="nris"/> The city has continued to grow around the home, with a strip mall bordering the southern edge of the property, and a new residential neighborhood just west.
==Bellingrath Family== '''Ferdinand McMillan "Ferd" Bellingrath''' and his wife, Catherine (née Oudin), moved into the newly built home in 1935. Ferd inherited the Coca-Cola Bottling Company after the death of his father in 1933.
Ferd was shot by a police officer during a domestic dispute involving his family, who were staying with a neighbor, on December 24, 1941. He died the following day at a local hospital.<ref>''Pine Bluff Commercial'' 26 Dec 1941, pg 7.</ref><ref>''Pine Bluff Daily Graphic'' 27 Dec 1941, pg 8.</ref> Catherine took over operations of the bottling company and eventually remarried.
The home remains within the Oudin family today.
==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas
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Category:Brick buildings and structures in Arkansas Category:Houses completed in 1932 Category:Houses in Jefferson County, Arkansas Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Category:National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Arkansas Category:Tudor Revival architecture in Arkansas Category:White Hall, Arkansas
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