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Date added: March 10, 2013; Modified: October 13, 2014
The WPA and the CCC worked in Ozark National Forest, including building Lake Wedington and the surrounding recreation area and three natural stone cabins on White Rock Mountain. The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program further describes CCC activity in the area… read more
Date added: August 19, 2014
The rustic-style log structure constructed by the WPA was demolished in 2013 and replaced with a new Verteran’s building.
Date added: August 19, 2014
This two-story Art Deco building adjacent to Cleveland County courthouse was built by the WPA in 1940. It was listed on National Register of Historic Places in 2000 and removed in 2005, apparently when it was demolished. The Cleveland Historical… read more
Date added: August 19, 2014
The NRHP nomination form describes this courthouse as the “…finest extant example of the Art Deco style within the city of Hope, Arkansas. Its horizontal symmetrical massing, set back rooflines and stylized Art Deco ornamentation are all identifying characteristics of… read more
Date added: May 31, 2014
This prominently displayed 1940 WPA marker stands in the grass at the edge of a small park in Alma, and most likely refers to WPA construction of the park itself. It does also border the town’s high school, and could… read more
Date added: January 22, 2014; Modified: May 12, 2014
Constructed by the WPA in 1936-1938, the high school building was destroyed by fire in 1977.
Date added: October 6, 2013; Modified: April 23, 2014
Currently vacant, the former “Scott County Courthouse in Waldron was designed in 1934 by the Fort Smith architects Bassham & Wheeler, and was constructed in part with Works Progress Administration labor… “The Scott County Courthouse stands as the finest Art… read more
Date added: March 7, 2013; Modified: April 4, 2014
“”1939 will long be remembered in Everton and with much pride because it marks the completion of our beautiful new school building through the cooperation of the W.P.A., local school board and our entire citizenship… This new structure was made… read more
Date added: March 10, 2013; Modified: April 4, 2014
“…During this time Cross County was suffering effects of the Great Depression along with the rest of the nation. They did not have the funding needed for new classrooms. The creation of the PWA program was their salvation and a… read more
Date added: February 7, 2014
Local African American youth in the African American community of Twin Groves built the main school building and a “shop” under the direction of local stonemason Silas Owens, Sr. The project was funded by the National Youth Administration with assistance… read more
Date added: February 3, 2014; Modified: February 3, 2014
“According to A Review of Work Relief Activities in Arkansas, April 1st, 1934 to July 1st 1935, this structure, referred to as a ‘community hall,’ was part of Projects 42-B15-2 and 42-B3-4 that operated from April 26th to October 13,… read more
Date added: January 25, 2014
Constructed of reinforced concrete and limestone “reflecting the native stone construction tradition” indigenous to the Ozark region, the two-story courthouse is a “restrained interpretation of the Art Deco style” (Story).
Date added: January 25, 2014; Modified: January 25, 2014
Locally known as the Home Economics/F.F.A. Building, this “combination NYA youth community center/classroom” was constructed in 1937-1938. It has been described as “the best local example of a building executed in the indigenous stone Rustic style which was popular with… read more
Date added: January 22, 2014
Local WPA workers used native stone to construct the home economics building in a Craftsman style (Story, 1992). The building was still in used by the Guy-Perkins school district as late as 1992.
Date added: January 22, 2014; Modified: January 22, 2014
“The Future Homemakers of America Home Economics building at the Calico Rock School had been on the drawing boards for over two years before the National Youth Administration notified the local school district that construction could actually begin in December,… read more