Petit Jean State Park by Richardphotos

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 15, 2014

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Description

the old structure had been used for different purposes during the early days. 1891 Dan Nelson builds a mansion on the point of Petit Jean Mountain overlooking the Arkansas River to the east. Nelson sells his property in the early 1920’s to a gentleman named Stout, who turns the mansion into a hotel. Later, the building is purchased and donated to the YMCA for use as a camp until the 1940’s, and then it is torn down. The YMCA sells the property to Camp Mitchell, which currently allows “Stout’s Point”, also known as Petit Jean’s Gravesite and Overlook, to be leased by Petit Jean State Park.

Comments (37)

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bodo_56

3:37AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

You're a lucky man to visit this beautiful park! What a wonderful ruin, it fits so well into the environment!

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farmerC

4:59AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Splendid shot.

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LBJ2

5:23AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Fantastic capture and motif, Richard. Very interesting to see how the early mason worked with bricks. They did not lay the bricks after a string, thats for sure :) Must be very old.

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giulband

5:30AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Very very wonderful capture !

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Cyve

6:51AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Fantastic capture my friend !

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ontar1

7:25AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Beautiful view, outstanding capture!

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Hendesse

7:39AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Excellent and very beautiful shot. The stone buildings and the landscape together in perfect harmony.

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johndoop

7:48AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Great I think old building?? Beautiful shot !!!!!!!!!!!

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FredNunes

8:02AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Great shot. We have a structure here in town that looks so much like this.

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VDH

8:22AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Nice view and excellent shot!

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Faemike55

8:40AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Wonderful capture beautiful area

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ZigZag321

9:35AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Great picture and I love that stone masonry! Amazing that they chose to build it right there by that huge rock formation with the ivy all over it. It's like practically right up against it. Unless it's not what I think it is? Looks like a natural formation to me.

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eekdog Online Now!

9:36AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

nice area and photo.

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DennisReed

10:40AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

cool

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kenmo

10:56AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Amazing photo of this place....

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Flint_Hawk

11:17AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

That's quite a place!

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drittervon5

11:25AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Beautiful Location! Nice capture!

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Jean_C

11:30AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Superb and restful place, very nice shot, Richard!

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Leije

11:31AM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Very nice shot !

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Star4mation

12:29PM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Super shot Richard :)

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drifterlee

12:47PM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Gorgeous rural shot, Richard!

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sharky_

1:13PM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Nice capture... Aloha

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CavalierLady

6:22PM | Sun, 15 June 2014

Very nice capture, I can't help but wonder what the building was used for originally.

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RodS

7:33PM | Sun, 15 June 2014

This is quite lovely, and a really cool photo, Richard! We didn't make it to this section of the park when we were there. Good excuse to go back, I guess...

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