C.E. Foster House

The C.E. Foster House is a historic house on Skyline Drive (Arkansas Highway 88) in Queen Wilhelmina State Park, located in central western Arkansas. It is a rustic stone structure, with two parts connected by a breezeway, located just outside the park entrance on the north side of the highway. It was built in 1931 by Carlos Hill and Phil Lance, and sold soon afterward to C. E. Foster, an Oklahoma oil businessman, who bought it for use as a summer house. It is one of four houses built by Hill on Rich Mountain, and is the best-preserved of the two that survive. In the 1960s the house was operated as a tourist attraction known as the "Wonder House"; it was taken over by the state in 1971.[2]

C. E. Foster House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Location	AR 88, Queen Wilhelmina State Park
Nearest city	Mena, Arkansas
Coordinates	34°41′9″N 94°22′25″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1931
Architectural style	Rustic
NRHP reference No.	93000084[1]
Added to NRHP	February 25, 1993

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]

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  Back side
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  Breezeway
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  Information board

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Polk County, Arkansas

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "NRHP nomination for C.E. Foster House" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-05-02.