The Rife Farmstead is a historic farm property in rural

Benton County, Arkansas Benton County is a county within the Northwest Arkansas region with a culture, economy, and history that have transitioned from rural and agricultural to suburban and white collar since the growth of Walmart, which is headquartered in Benton C ...

. Located on the west side of County Road 47 about north of its junction with

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, it consists of a single-story

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

-style stone house with a front-

gable roof A gable roof is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins. The pitch of a gable roof ca ...

, and a side gable projecting

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. The house was built in 1928 by Luther Rife, and is unusual in this rural setting, where most houses are

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in form. The property original had two c. 1910 barns when the property was surveyed in 1988; these are apparently no longer standing. The property was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1910 Houses in Benton County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas 1910 establishments in Arkansas Bungalow architecture in Arkansas American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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