Dortch House is the only plantation home in Arkansas that is fully furnished in the antebellum period style and available for tours and private events.

The Dortch Planation eventually expanded to over 7,000 acres with cotton, rice, corn and soy beans under cultivation.

By 1922, the Dortch family and their farming prowess was known well enough to be featured in an article in the Arkansas Democrat issue published on September 10, 1922.

On the front portico facing Bearskin Lake, doric columns rise over forty feet in height.

The interior features a dramatic double staircase, original beveled glass windows, sliding oak pocket doors, handcrafted woodwork and Carrara marble fireplaces.

The guest house at Dortch is modeled on Farmington Historic Home built in Louisville, Kentucky in 1812 and designed by Thomas Jefferson.

Artifacts collected from the surface of Native American sites by the Dortch and Burrow family members were donated to the Toltec museum in the 1970s and are on display there.