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Photograph of Crown Hotel
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Lakeside Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Crown Hotel, formerly the Lakeside Hotel is a historic hotel building at 119 West University Street in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building in an L shape, with a hip roof topped by a low cupola.”

Wikipedia article Crown Hotel (Siloam Springs, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 119 W. University St, Siloam Springs, 72761
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Township 5
  • National Register reference number. 79000432 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside Hotel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,200 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 46 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2011Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use120 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30408
28 August 2000Smoking13 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lakeside Hotel: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Siloam Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siloam Springs, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 19 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSiloam Springs$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSiloam Springs$2,000no account filed
January 1995HailSiloam Springs-Severe thunderstorms moved from southeast Oklahoma into northwest Arkansas during the evening of January 12th. Large hail accompanied the storms with quarter-size hail which covered the ground eight miles northeast of Lavaca. Dime-size hail fell at several other locations in northwest Arkansas.
May 1994HailSiloam Springs-Heavy rains caused flooding in Siloam Springs. Several streets in Siloam Springs were covered by water up to four feet deep.
May 1994HailSiloam Springs-Heavy rains caused flooding in Siloam Springs. Several streets in Siloam Springs were covered by water up to four feet deep.
April 1994HailSiloam Springs-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few tree limbs.
April 1993Tornado (F0)Siloam Springs-A small F0 tornado briefly touched down in an open area. There was no damage reported.
January 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
November 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
November 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
November 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
December 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
December 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
December 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
June 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
June 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
January 1995HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailSiloam Springs-no account filed
April 1993HailSiloam Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Henry Furniture Store Buildingunder 500 feet1994
First National Bankunder 500 feet1988
Duckworth-Williams Houseunder 500 feet1988
Siloam Springs City Parkunder 500 feet1988
Bratt-Smiley Houseunder 500 feet1988
Siloam Springs Downtown Historic Districtunder 500 feet1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000432 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 162 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.