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{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Rector Log Barn
  | nrhp_type = 
  | image = Rector Log Barn.jpg
  | caption = 
  | nearest_city = [[Melbourne, Arkansas]]
  | coordinates = {{coord|36|5|34|N|91|56|8|W|display=inline,title}}
  | locmapin = Arkansas#USA
  | map_caption = Location in [[Arkansas]]##Location in United States
  | built = {{Start date|1855}}
  | builder = Joseph William Rector
  | architecture = [[Vernacular architecture|Vernacular]], Plain Traditional
  | added = June 3, 1993
  | area = less than one acre
  | refnum = 93000488<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Rector Log Barn''' is a historic barn in rural [[Izard County, Arkansas]].  It is located on the Rector Plantation, at the end of County Road 218, northwest of [[Melbourne, Arkansas|Melbourne]].  Its central portion, a log structure {{frac|2|1|2}} stories in height, was built c. 1855, and is the only known example in the region of an [[antebellum era]] log barn.  The main structure is flanked on all sides by 20th-century single-story [[shed-roof]] extensions, which serve in part to protect the historic log elements.  The barn was built by Joseph William Rector, an early settler of Izard County, probably with the use of slave labor.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/IZ0034-pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Rector Log Barn|publisher=Arkansas Preservation|accessdate=2015-01-10}}</ref>

The barn was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1993.<ref name="nris"/>

==See also==
*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Izard County, Arkansas]]

==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places}}

[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1855]]
[[Category:Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Izard County, Arkansas]]
[[Category:Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas]]


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