Title:
Five-Room, Style E-4, Colony Home
Description:
One of eight styles for the five-room houses designed by Little Rock architect Howard Eichenbaum and built in the Dyess Colony. The federal government built 206 of the five-room sizes, using the eight styles to vary floorplans and exterior facades.
Notes:
Top: The Mitchell twins, Maxine and Josephine, in front of House 538. They are the daughters of Thomas G. and Mary Mitchell, who arrived from Stone County in 1936. Courtesy of Russell Mitchell Clifton.
Bottom left: Photo from the National Archives, Records of the Works Projects Administration.
Bottom right: Everett Henson Collection.
Bottom left: Photo from the National Archives, Records of the Works Projects Administration.
Bottom right: Everett Henson Collection.
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Twins Josephine and Maxine Mitchell at their Dyess home
Five-Room E-4 Style House
Access to colony houses was sometimes rather treacherous.
Twins Josephine and Maxine Mitchell at their Dyess home
Five-Room E-4 Style House
Access to colony houses was sometimes rather treacherous.