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Moore - Jacobs House
500 N.
Main
Clarendon, Monroe County, Arkansas
ca. 1870 Greek Revival structure
Listed in National Register of Historic Places on September 29,
1983.
The picture shown on the
Arkansas National Register website is of a little building
called "My Study Chapel" which was built in 1954. The
actual Moore - Jacobs House was built around 1970. The
Study Chapel was what caught my eye but the whole thing is a
treat that Clarendon should play up to visitors.
Notes from Anne Harvey - atwharvey @ verizon.net :
Moore-Jacobs
House. The “Dear Little House” -- Now I have to tell you about
this. Margaret Moore Jacobs was a friend of my grandparents and
a member of the Presbyterian church where my grandfather was
pastor and where my grandmother grew up. Mrs. Jacobs was quite a
character, quite eccentric, quite different from the rest of her
family. She authored one or more books. When her husband died,
she talked about him as if he were still alive, carried on
conversations with him, and went out every Sunday to the
cemetery to read the Wall Street Journal to him. I love
the picture with all the hat boxes, as she loved hats,
especially large-rimmed ones. I was only in the house once or
twice, mainly seeing her at church or at my grandparents. Of
course, Clarendon was filled with eccentric people when I was
young! That’s one of the things that made it so interesting for
a child.
John B. Jacobs
John B. and Margaret (Moore) Jacobs
This is a replica of the first school house in Clarendon.
Mr. Burton Moore, caretaker of this wonderful place and the nephew of
Margaret Moore Jacobs. He is ringing the "school" bell.
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