E. Fay and Gus Jones House, Mid-century modern residence in Fayetteville, United States
The E. Fay and Gus Jones House at 1330 North Hillcrest is a two-story home completed in 1956, with fieldstone on the first level and redwood board-and-batten siding on the second, all under a broad gabled roof. Jones designed it as his own family residence, and it was the first of his designs to be built.
E. Fay Jones designed the house as his own family residence and completed it in 1956; it was the first of his designs to be built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It has recently been restored and now opens for limited public tours, a project of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design with the Tesseract Center at the University of Arkansas.
The house is named for E. Fay Jones and his wife Gus, who lived there as a family home. Jones built it as the first design of his own practice, and its fieldstone-and-redwood construction shows the organic approach he later taught at the University of Arkansas. The property is now used for limited public tours run with the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and the Tesseract Center.
The property sits at 1330 North Hillcrest Avenue and is managed by the University of Arkansas for educational access. Visitors should plan ahead to confirm available times and consider the location's position within the surrounding residential neighborhood.
Frank Lloyd Wright visited the property in 1958 and gave personal approval of the design, validating Jones's architectural vision. This direct endorsement from the master architect helped establish Jones's credibility as an independent practitioner.
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