Kays, Victor Cicero, House Jonesboro, Arkansas

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"significance under Criterion B for its associations with Victor Cicero Kays. Victor Cicero Kays was the founding president of the First District State Agricultural School, which is now Arkansas State University, one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Arkansas. Kays, through his leadership and guidance, was instrumental in the growth and success ofthe school in its early days. Even after his retirement from the university in 1943, Kays remained active in the institution and continued to contribute to its development. The V. C. Kays House is also being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places with local significance under Criterion Cas an excellent example of the Tudor Revival style of architecture. According to Virginia and Lee McAlester in A Field Guide to American Houses, the style has the following identifying features, most which are exhibited by the Kays House: ""Steeply pitched roof, usually side-gabled ... ; fac;ade dominated by one or more prominent cross gables, usually steeply pitched; decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering present on about half of examples; tall, narrow windows, usually in multiple groups and with multi-pane glazing; massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots."" "