Title:
Four-Room, Style A, Colony Home
Description:
One of nine styles for the four-room houses designed by Little Rock architect Howard Eichenbaum and built in the Dyess Colony. The federal government built 233 of the four-room sizes, using the nine styles to vary floorplans and exterior facades.
Notes:
Top Photo: C. Emmett Yancey and his children. Yancey's wife Lera died of pneumonia shortly after arriving in 1936 from Arkansas County. Photo from the National Archives, Records of the Works Projects Administration.
Center: Photos from the National Archives, Records of the Works Projects Administration.
Bottom: The W. Dewey Owen family who moved to Dyess from Columbia County in 1934 as some of the first colonists. Courtesy of Janice Owen Wise.
Center: Photos from the National Archives, Records of the Works Projects Administration.
Bottom: The W. Dewey Owen family who moved to Dyess from Columbia County in 1934 as some of the first colonists. Courtesy of Janice Owen Wise.
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Emmett Yancey's Four-Room A Style House
Four-Room A Style House
Standard Four-Room Floor Plan
W. Dewey Owen Family
Emmett Yancey's Four-Room A Style House
Four-Room A Style House
Standard Four-Room Floor Plan
W. Dewey Owen Family