Watkins House (Searcy, Arkansas)

The Arthur W. Hoofman House is a historic house at North Cross and East Race Streets in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a side-facing gable roof that has a half-timbered gable end. The massing of the house is complex, with a variety of dormer and gable shapes, and a wraparound porch recessed under the roof, supported by an arcade of brick piers. The house, built in 1931 for a strawberry grower, is the city's finest example of high style English Revival architecture.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Harding University is a private university with its main campus in Searcy, Arkansas. It is the largest private university in Arkansas. Established in 1924, the institution offers undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional programs. The university also comprises Harding School of Theology, located in Memphis, Tennessee, which was formerly known as Harding Graduate School of Religion. Harding is one of several institutions of higher learning associated with the Churches of Christ.

The Dean L.C. Sears House was a historic house at 805 East Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It was a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with English Revival architecture, built on campus in 1935 for Dean L.C. Sears, the first dean of Harding University after its move to Searcy from Morrilton.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It has been listed as destroyed in the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program database, and was delisted in 2018.

Pattie Cobb Hall, is an historic academic building on the campus of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a large three-story Colonial Revival structure, built out of reinforced concrete faced in brick. Its flat roof is encircled by a low balustrade, and a four-column portico projects from the front. The hall was built in 1919, and is one of two buildings surviving from the time when this campus was home to Galloway Female College. That school closed in 1933, and its campus was purchased by Harding the following year.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

The Joiner House is a historic house at 708 Market Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure, with asymmetrical massing characteristic of the English Revival architecture. A side gable roof has a large front-projecting gable with half-timbered stucco exterior, and the centered entrance is sheltered by a projecting brick gabled portico. Built in 1928, it is the oldest of Searcy's English Revival houses, and among its most picturesque.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Harding Academy is a K-12 private school in Searcy, Arkansas. It is affiliated with Harding University. Like that institution, it is associated with the Churches of Christ and named in honor of an early minister of that fellowship, James A. Harding. James Gurchiek is the current headmaster. Bradley Francis is the High School Principal. Matthew Henderson is the Elementary Principal.

The Wilburn House is a historic house at 707 East Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. It has a projecting gabled entry porch, with a broad frieze and fully pedimented gable supported by square columns with molded capitals. Built about 1875, it is one of Searcy's finest surviving pre-railroad houses.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

The Brooks House is a historic house at 704 East Market Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, and a slightly off-center projecting gabled section, from which an entrance vestibule projects further at its left edge. To the left of the projecting section is a segmented-arch dormer over a group of three sash windows. Built about 1935, it is a fine local example of a modest English Revival house, echoing more elaborate and larger-scale homes of the style in wealthier communities.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

The Lightle House, a historic house at 605 Race Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas contains two stories, a full basement, and a full attic. Its brick facade attaches to a reinforced concrete foundation which supports a tile hip roof with 1924 Ludovici tiles. Designed by Charles L. Thompson, it has plans dated December 1923, so construction started in 1924 and continued until the Edward Lightle family moved into the house in April 1925, a date documented on the underside of a garden urn presently located under a wrought iron gazebo in the back yard. The house is an elongated version of a somewhat standard Colonial Revival plan produced by Thompson and Harding, with a porte-cochere at one end, and an elaborate entry, with sidelight windows, and pilasters supporting an entablature and arced pediment. Though made to look original, the present back yard balcony is not original but replaced a rotted wood balcony added in 1996 when the house was renovated to serve as a bed & breakfast. That renovation also enclosed the second floor sleeping porch. Presently, it has seven bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, as well as a commercial kitchen, two dining rooms, and three rooms used for office space.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The Hicks-Dugan-Deener House is a historic house at 306 E. Center St. in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, a cross-gable projecting section at the right side, and a four-column Greek Revival gable-topped entrance portico. Built about 1855, it is one of Searcy's few surviving pre-Civil War houses. Its first owner, William Hicks, was the son of one of Searcy's first lawyers, Howell Hicks, and served as a lawyer and state representative. Walter Dugan, the next owner, was a prominent local businessman, owning the local telephone company.The house was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The William H. Lightle House is a historic house at 601 East Race Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a roughly L-shaped 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and brick foundation. It has vernacular Italianate styling, with tall and narrow segmented-arch windows, and a shed-roof porch supported by square posts set on pedestal bases. The house was built in 1881 for a prominent local businessman, and is one of the county's few Italianate residences.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

The Deener House is a historic house at 310 East Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story Bungalow/Craftsman style house that was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. It has the low-slung appearance typical of the Bungalow style, with a side gable roof that extends across its full-width front porch, where it is supported by fieldstone piers, and shows exposed rafters. Three small gable-roof dormers are closely spaced near the center of the otherwise expansive roof.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Hicks-Dugan-Deener House, next door at 306 E. Center Street, is also listed.