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| City/County/Congressional District: • Uniontown , Crawford County ( District 3 ) |
| Location Class: • Residential |
| Year Built: • 1890 | Year Abandoned: • N/A |
| Historic Designation: |
| Status: • Abandoned • Endangered |
The Slack-Comstock-Marshall House, located not far from the Oklahoma-Arkansas border in Crawford County, was erected in phases beginning in the mid 1890s. It was built in the “Plain Traditional” style but is distinguished by decorative shingle-work in the gables. The was originally built by farmer Van Slack as a rectangular single-story double pen structure, facing south. It was later expanded by adding rooms, a common practice then and now. In this instance, however, the builders went beyond the norm; sometime after 1900, new owner Hardy Comstock added the three-room, one-and-one-half story addition with a cross gable roof. Comstock also added a wraparound proc, which served to integrate the large addition with the rest of the design. After the Marshall family acquired the property in 1918, they added a porch to the rear of the house and in succeeding decades made other minor changes to the house. Today, the Slack-Comstock-Marshall House stands vacant, still in the hands of Marshall descendants who love the house and want to keep it. The graceful line of the porch is countered by the dangerous tilt of its stone piers, reminders of its risky condition.