East Broad Street Historic District (Texarkana, Arkansas)

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East Broad Street Historic District
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Location100 block E. Broad St., Texarkana, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°25′24″N94°2′33″W / 33.42333°N 94.04250°W / 33.42333; -94.04250 Coordinates: 33°25′24″N94°2′33″W / 33.42333°N 94.04250°W / 33.42333; -94.04250
Arealess than one acre
Built1886 (1886)
Architectural styleItalianate, Early Commercial
MPS Historic Buildings of Texarkana, Arkansas, MPS
NRHP reference # 08000729 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 1, 2008

The East Broad Street Historic District encompasses a city block of historic commercial buildings in Texarkana, Arkansas. The district includes all of the buildings on the 100 block of East Broad Street. Most of the fifteen buildings in the district were built before 1920, during Texarkana's major period of growth after the arrival of the railroad. Broad Street, just one block from the railroad, quickly became its economic center. The oldest building is the O'Dwyer and Ahern Building at 110 East Broad Street, a three-story brick-faced building constructed c. 1886. [2]

Texarkana, Arkansas City in the United States

Texarkana is a city in Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County. The city is located across the state line from its twin city, Texarkana, Texas. The city was founded at a railroad intersection on December 8, 1873, and was incorporated in Arkansas on August 10, 1880. Texarkana is the principal city of the Texarkana metropolitan area, which is ranked 274th in terms of population in the United States with 150,098 in 2016 according to the United States Census Bureau.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Miller County, Arkansas Wikimedia list article

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for East Broad Street Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-11.