Realtor: $12M Horton Farms Compound Is Arkansas’ Most Expensive Listing

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

$12M Horton Farms Compound Is Arkansas’ Most Expensive Listing

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Now the most expensive home in Arkansas, Horton Farms in Gravette is a 200-acre farm, event space, and corporate retreat that opened in 2006. The property includes a main house, guest cabin, event hall, guesthouse, and caretaker’s cottage.

The grounds feature rolling hills and trees, a lake, covered bridge, a pool, and a 125-foot flagpole topped by a 2,800-square-foot American flag. Yes, the flag is bigger than most New Yorkers’ apartments, can be seen by planes landing at the nearby airport, and has to be repaired by a professional every six weeks.

The public part of Horton Farms, which can be rented for corporate retreats, weddings, or other functions, includes the cabin, event hall, patio, and chapel. The 8,500-square-foot event hall, dubbed the Sierra Grand Hall, has a caterer’s kitchen and bridal suite; it also adjoins a 7,000-square-foot patio. The hall’s 45-foot ceiling is decked out with eight massive chandeliers and seats over 450 people for dinner.

Horton Farms entryway

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Sierra Grand Hall

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Interior of Sierra Grand Hall

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Outside the grand hall is the patio with elevated chapel, so your guests can easily view your wedding, corporate speaker, or gala entertainment. The patio is designed to accommodate over 800 people, so party planners don’t have to skimp on the guest list.

Guests stay at the cabin, officially named the Sierra Executive Retreat, a 3,200-square-foot space built from dead-standing Colorado spruce and Arkansas stone. It features a massive central fireplace, huge kitchen, enormous peaked roof, lower-level meeting room (that doubles as a tornado shelter), four bedrooms, and two three-stall bathrooms.

Sierra Executive Retreat

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The Sierra Executive Retreat is Wi-Fi–enabled, accessible, and equipped with sprinkler systems to meet commercial rental space requirements. It can seat up to 40 for the day, or 16 at night, if your executive guests are cool with bunk beds.

The real wow factor is saved for the four-bedroom main house. You get a whopping 15,000 square feet of it, including a massive wine cellar and tasting room, walls of windows, and high-end finishes throughout.

Open-plan living dominates the main floor, with a huge great room, a double-island kitchen with double refrigerators and stoves, formal dining room, small office or butler’s pantry, and second living room with fireplace and even more windows. There are wood floors and natural stone countertops throughout, along with high ceilings featuring gorgeous chandeliers.

Great room in main house

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The master suite has cavernous walk-in closets, one with a marble dressing table and in-closet lighting. The master bath has dual sinks, a chandelier-topped soaking tub, and a standing shower big enough for a family of four. There’s also a sitting room that looks out onto the grounds, and an in-bedroom coffee bar.

The lower level of the home has a rumpus room, office, wine cellar and tasting room, bathrooms, bedrooms, a wall safe-style door, and coffee or wet bar. There’s basically nowhere in this house you can go that’s not within arm’s reach of coffee.

An elevator provides access to both levels of the home.

The 5,500-square-foot guesthouse features a big kitchen, more chandeliers, and a stone-clad fireplace.

Of Horton Farms’ 200 acres, 170 are reserved for the owners, guest cabin, and caretaker’s space. The compound has won the area’s Best of the Best award for eight years running. That’s not too shabby for $12 million!