i;r, . :.L,. ',-\Ilk (Rev. 10-74) %-7b- Pj 80 -(,1 . STATES ?3tS),iiCl-IIEWTOF THE !:.':if ED 1hTEK:CIP. FOR MPS USE OhkY NATlOiuAC PAaK SERVICE ,. 1 * SEE 1NSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TCJ CGMP!.EEE ,FVAT/ONALREGISTER FCITMS TYPE ALL ENTHIES -- COMPLET5 A?PLICABLE SECTl9hS ~XAME HE-TOR~C Barden House AND/OR COMMON . , 'I Borden-Hall Hous@ a LOCATION d b .v -. STREET B NUMBER Rmte 2 Highway 62 East -HOT FOR PUBLIWTIOM CL~Y. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Prairie Gmve X VICIN~TYOF Third STATE CODE COUNTY CODE CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE ,DISTRI~ -PUBLIC -OCCUPIED AGRICULTURE ,MUSEUM sBUILOIW(SE XPRlVATE X~NOCCUPIED -COMMERCIAL -PARK ,STRUCTURE -BOTH -WOFlK IN PROGRESS -EDUCATIONAL ,PRIVATE RESIDENCE _SITE PUBLIC ACCiUISITION ACCESSFBLE -ENTERTAINMENT -RELIGIOUS ,OSCECT - -IN PFlOCESS Y-YES' RESTRICTED -GOVERUMEIVT -SUEluflFlC XBElNG CONSIDERED -YES UNRESTRlCTEIP JMWSTRIGL -TRAF)SPOF TATION -r.o -MI UTAAY -OTHER: KAVE Mrs, J. W, Grissom STREET& NtlM3ta 3oute 2 Eighwq 62 E~st CITY. TOWN STATE ~xairieGrove VICINITY OF 7,rl'ransas LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGTSTRY OF DEEOqEfC Washinqton County Comt!?ouse STREET & hUMBER Colleqe Avenue and East Center Street CITY. TOWN STATE Pavptt~vi1 le Arkansas rq~.-.*r RERESFMTATIBM IN EXISTING SUZVEYS TITLE m * -FEDERAL ATATE -COUNTY -LOCLIL w . DEFCSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS CiTY. TOWN STATE CONDITIOFI C:+ECX CNE CHECK ONE ,LrshCrEaED ;c.ORIGINAC SITE .. - sA~T5;tIr3 -b!OV!3 DATE -- I DESCRIBE TF!.E PRFSEVT AND QRLGINAL [IF Kr4Gb9j*r i PHYSICAL APPEA4AhCE I 'i3e Borden-tiall House Ts a one-and-one-half s'ory aind one-le-~elsddition frame atncture clad in an 1880's skin. It is located less 33 yar3; east of I Prairie Grove aattlefield Park. i The jlan has a central hallway, one raom an oither side. Th? exterior end, cnt sandstone chimneys have been removed but can be located. The weather-board-clad balloon frame bnildzng and t3e ell rest on a layed atone foundation. The building is rapped by double-pitched roofs supported Sy round rafters. The roof was first cover4 in shingles, then asphalt shingles and now partially by tax paper, The front facade faces north across the valley of the Illinois Creek. The first level of this facade contains five bays. The cectral Say consists of a portico and a stylized triangular-pedimented entrance door with sidelights. The portico is covered by a half-hipped mof, decorat& with lattice work at the eave and supported by turned columns. The four bys that complete the first level of the north facade contain double-hung, six-pane windows trimmed above with the stylized triangular pediment dsnstsated above the entrance door. This same trim was used on the interior 05 these windows. The half level above on the nortll facade contains three domes windows. The end dormers contain double-hung, six-pane sash. The central dormer - is larger and is framed for a door, inzicating a different type portico existed because the present portico roof half covers the door 02eninq. Further reinEorcing the symmetrical nature of the house are the identical east anZ west.facades of the.main block. On the lower level 05 both facades are double-hung, six-pane windows.' On the upser level two double- hung, six-pane windows £.lank the chimney. ... .,.,. Rear doers exist inthelow=-roomsofthe main block. (All doors were four panelled). The door in the east xoom enters the two-room addition which was heated by a back-to-back brick fireplace. The central hallway had a rear door and contained the open-s*ing stairs to the half level. The stairs are "L" shaped, with W~DZB~S,turned newel, shaped handrail and plain balusters. The fireplace mantels were carved wood with rectangular openings. Eoth manteis contained pilasters and entablatures, bed mouldings a~d-mantel shelves. The west mantel had a mouLdea frieze, whereas the east mantel was plain. - ... .- # '; . I.. Paper and basebo~-d covered the plaster on wood lath sr3lls of the lower 500111s of the main block. The ceilings wexe plssterer??also, and the floors were wood supported by log joists. Wall and floor slxf aces in the upper lev31 were boarded and papered. L ;c,rn No lQ-300a rl;~, 13 74: UNITt-.D S1'4, 1 i:5 E)t!':\R1 hltNT OF 1 Hi: I 'L 1 i-.-.1<EOR '!!,",TIC!NAL PARK SERVICE :!r%T?ONAL ?,SZ1'SEX OF WSTGR1C PL4CES XNfENTt3X~!-- NOMS[NI~TIG~-7s Rhrl The Borden-tlali Youse is in a deteriorating condition. Among the immediate problems are a poor roof, faller! chin~eys,rotting foundations and porches, I water damage from windows, etc. Aceion must be taken hurridly to prevent the loss of this very significant building and site. I AREAS OF S1GNIFlCAVCE -- CHECK AND 3USTIn QE:C'JV _PRCHEOCUGY .P?E:lIST.2ilIC -COivl'dUNlTY PLAhNiflG _.LAYDSCAPE ARCHkTECiL St JRCFEOLOGY-HISTOAIC -CONSERVATlClN - .MV! 4G;FICULlURE -ECONOMIES ..,LIT€ RATUPE ARCHITECT9'J;IE -EDUCATION x MILIT~RY ART -ENGINEERING , .MUSIC -COMMEPCE _EXPLORATION,SETTLEMEMT -PfilLOSOPHY - _COMMUNlCATlONS -INDUSTRY -.POLITICS/GOVERNGliEkT -1 NVENTIQN , . -. BUILDERIARCH ITECT DATES December 7, 1552 The Battle - The Borden House The surrounding land and the Borden House cannot be separated. The Confederate right flank was anchored around the Borden House and orchard where the main fighting of the Prairie Gmve battle took place. Briefly stated, General Herron attacked the Conzederate right flank near noon and it was not until 4-00 that General Blunt came on the field to unite the Union forces, which then fought together until 7:OO in the evening. Con- sequently, I intend to confine this report only to those witnessed accounts which took place on the Confederate right flank in and around the Borden House. I believe that these reports, £ram bth Korth and South, will prove how important this site is to the Prairie Grove Eattlefield Park and that the existing Borden House and orchard grand must be saved as an original historical landmark intimately identified with the main events uhich took place on that Sunday, December 7, 1862. -- - .. .- - .- . General Windman C.S.A. "The shape of the hill detemined the line of battle, which was nearly in the fom .of a horseshoe. " . tfien the Con£ederate .Army had drawn a Line of . battle around the hilltop village of Prairie Grove they were already too late to egTage General Herron's Union command alone as .had been desiped ... 'enera1 Marmaduke was falling back before the Union infmtry, and Gemral Shoup had pl.ac.ed his ConEderate division in position to xeet the expected attack. He had with admirdle judgement selected a strong defensive position upon the brow of a densely wooded hill commanding the Cane Hill and Fzyetteville road and within artillery range of the ford of Illinois Creek." (Foote) Prentiss 1888 "The lines of battle seemea very short, the Confederate front embraced, in general terms, between the Hall House (Eorden House) and the Morton House. East of the former and west sf the latter the battle seemed to fray out so to speak, and we could find no tradition or landmark. *' kccarding to the Arkansas History Comission, "The most severe fighting of the battle took place about the Borden House and orchard. " General Herron reported more tha? 300 dead in less than two acres of the slopes about this house. Cccu?ying the ricpht flank of the Confederate Amy, the Borden House saw the start of the battle, as this flank successfully held the orchard then occupied by an a5andoned Confederate battsry of four pieces which baited the initial attacks of General Herron. Z*ne following records will prove this, beyond a doubt, by continually referring to the one obvicus landmark in this area -- the existing Borden House. FO;.. No 13-3W3 !;.e.; 10-76) LYlTtU$2' '\;!:5 l)kPrIKTMEY? ilk 'i HI. IhTk,KIOR ~PSUSE ONLY 1 NATIONAL PAPK SERUCi ! 1 ~ECEIVED ATl0KAL 33G1SEB OF KSTBB'IC BMGES 7's lor\.7's . EXTERED INVEN'TGX K -- MOPiIlPdilTI93X FCaRM CUNTl NU ASION SHEET ITEM NUhlBER 8 PAGE 1 General Hesron U.S.A. In the Official. Records: Volume 22, Report #14, Ge3eral Rerron reports on Decenber 19, 1862: "...when within 100 yards sf the ridge, the 20th Wisconsin and the 19th lowa Infantry were ordered to charge a battery placed near a fam house (Borden House) , on the edge of the hill. The charge was made in gallant style, the enemy driven back, and the battery taken, but the ground could not be held ...,Regiment after regiment of infantry was hurled upon the, and they were compelled to fall back." Colonel Ome 94th Illinois, U.S.A. Tn this same volume of the Official Records, Report $31, written on Decenber 10,1062 by Colonel Ome of the 94th Illinois: "Meanwhile the 19th Iowa had received and returned tho, fire of the enemy and now advanced steadily..up -khe.hill to the left of the white house (Borden House), 2nd across the orchard lsack of the house to a fence, behind which the enemy in greatly superiar force were concealed. At it approached, the enemy rose u? and . poured ir. a mst severe and destructive fire upon it, and the 20th Wisconsin having already commenced to fall back in disorder, the 19th lowa was unable t;o hold its position, and was compelled to fall back across the orchard, where Lieutenant Colonel McFarland fell shot through the body. Major D. Kent then took command ar.d rallied a portion of his men, who had fallen back to the right of the battery, near the position of the 94th Xllinois," Major Kent 19th Iowa, U.S.A. In the sme volume 05 tke ~fficaIRecords,Report $33, written Decexber loth, 1862 by Major Kent, 19th kwz, who describes thjs charge:".