Altus is a city in Franklin County, Arkansas, United States. Located within the Arkansas River Valley at the edge of the Ozark Mountains, the city is within the Fort Smith metropolitan area. The epicenter of the Altus American Viticultural Area (AVA) within Arkansas Wine Country, the city is home to four wineries. Although founded as a coal mining community, the wine industry has driven the Altus economy since the first vineyards were planted in 1872. The population was 758 at the 2010 census, down from 817 at the 2000 census.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as St. Mary's Catholic Church, is a historic church just north of Altus, Arkansas. It is located on Franklin County Road 521, just outside the city limits. The Romanesque church building was built in 1902. The church is known for its Sistine Chapel-style paintings and grand Roman Basilical architecture. Brown stone blocks cover the outside of the church, and the inside walls are lined with ornate gold leaf. The organ inside the church is over 100 years old, as is the bell tower. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
U.S. Route 64 is a U.S. highway running from Teec Nos Pos, Arizona east to Nags Head, North Carolina. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, the route runs 246.35 miles (396.46 km) from the Oklahoma border in Fort Smith east to the Tennessee border in Memphis. The route passes through several cities and towns, including Fort Smith, Clarksville, Russellville, Conway, Searcy, and West Memphis. US 64 runs parallel to Interstate 40 until Conway, when I-40 takes a more southerly route.
Northwest Davenport Savings Bank is a historic building located in a commercial district in the old northwest section of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.
The Bank of Carthage is a historic bank building at the junction of Arkansas Highway 229 and West Kelly Avenue in Carthage, Arkansas. The single-story brick building was designed by Charles L. Thompson in Classical Revival style and built in 1907. It is the only period commercial building in the small town. It is built out of salmon-colored brick, with a low parapet on its main facade. The entrance is located in a diagonal cutout from one of its corners.
The Exchange Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 423 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a five-story masonry structure, built in 1921 out of reinforced concrete, brick, limestone, and granite. It has Classical Revival, with its main facade dominated by massive engaged fluted Doric columns. It was designed by the noted Arkansas architectural firm of Thompson & Harding, and is considered one of its best commercial designs.
The Old Bank of Amity is a historic commercial building at the northwest corner of the town square in Amity, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick building with modest Italianate styling. It was built in 1906–07, and is the most prominent building of the period in the community. The Bank of Amity was chartered in 1905 and operated in this building until 1976, when it moved to new premises.
The Planters Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 200 East Hale Street in downtown Osceola, Arkansas. It is a Classical Revival brick and mortar structure, designed by Missouri architect Uzell Singleton Branson and built c. 1920. It is one of the most architecturally sophisticated buildings in the city, which is otherwise dominated by vernacular early 20th-century commercial architecture. It has housed banks for most of its existence, although it briefly served as city hall in 1943–44.
The Hiwasse Bank Building is a historic commercial building in the rural community of Hiwasse, Arkansas. It is located on Arkansas Highway 279, a short way south of its junction with Arkansas Highway 72, abutting a similar but slightly newer commercial building. The building is a single-story brick building, with its front facade divided into three sections by iron stanchions. The left two bays have wood-frame windows in them, that on the right, the entrance flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom. Above these is a brick panel defined by a frame of corbelled brick. The interior has retained elements of its original pressed metal ceiling. Built c. 1890, it represents the best of commercial architecture of that period in the small community.
The Altus Well Shed-Gazebo is a gazebo located adjacent to the central city park of Altus, Arkansas, near the junction of Franklin and Main Streets. It is an octagonal structure, set on a foundation of cast concrete blocks, with eight stepped columns supporting a wooden roof frame with a metal shingle roof and finial. The gazebo was built about 1920 covering a well that is believed to have been built in 1888, around the time a branch railroad line was built from Altus to a nearby coal mining area.
The Center Cross School is a historic school building at the junction of West Creek Road and West College Road in rural Franklin County, Arkansas, west of Altus. It is an L-shaped single-story wood-frame building, with a hip roof and weatherboard siding. A porch extends across the long front, the main roof extending over it, with box columns for support. The school was built in 1930, during a period of prosperity.
The Franklin County Courthouse, Southern District is located at 607 East Main Street in Charleston, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building, its bays divided by brick pilasters, and its roof topping a metal cornice. Its entrance is framed by brick pilasters with cast stone heads, and topped by a round arch with a cast stone keystone. The building was built in 1923 to a design by Little Rock architect Frank Gibb.
The Missouri-Pacific Depot, Altus is a historic railroad station on United States Route 64 in Altus, Arkansas. It is a long rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, finished in stucco, with a gable-on-hip roof with broad eaves. It was built in 1920 by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and served as both a passenger and freight depot. It is representative of the town's early history as a railroad town.
The Ozark Courthouse Square Historic District encompasses the historic late 19th-century center of Ozark, Arkansas. It includes an area two blocks by two blocks in area, bounded on the west by 4th Street, the north by West Commercial Street, the east by 2nd Street, and the south by West Main Street. Most of the buildings in the district were built between about 1890 and 1930, a period of significant growth occasioned by the arrival of the railroad, and are built either out of brick or locally quarried stone. Prominent buildings include the Franklin County Courthouse and the Bristow Hotel.
The Monroe County Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 225-227 West Cypress Street in Brinkley, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, with brick and stone trim elements. It houses three storefronts on the ground floor, with professional offices and other spaces on the upper floor. It was built about 1889, and its facade was redone in 1909 after suffering extensive damage caused by a tornado. The Monroe County Bank, for whom it was built, was the town's first major bank, and occupied the building until the 1930s. Its upper level also housed the town's largest performance venue of the time.
The Pottsville Citizen's Bank is a historic commercial building at 156 East Ash Street in downtown Pottsville, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building, with vernacular early 20th-century commercial styling, a flat roof and a concrete foundation. It is joined by a party wall to a similar building on the right. Built in 1913, it housed the first bank to establish business in the community.
The Bank of Booneville Building is a historic commercial building at 1 West Main Street in downtown Booneville, Arkansas. Built in 1902, this brick two-story building was one of the first buildings to be built in what is now the commercial heart of the city. The Bank of Booneville was chartered in 1899, and this was its home until its closure in 1934. The building's modest Renaissance features include a rusticated stone arch entrance on the corner, and brick corbelling and dentil work on the cornice.
The Warren Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of Warren, Arkansas. The district's northern end is focused on the Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office, and extends down Main Street to Church Street, with branches along cross streets and roads radiating from the courthouse square. This area was developed beginning in the 1840s, but its oldest buildings date to the 1890s, primarily brick commercial buildings. Of architectural note are the courthouse, a Beaux Arts structure built in 1903, and the Classical Revival Warren Bank building (1927).
The Billado Block is a historic commercial building at 371 Main Street in the Enosburg Falls village of Enosburgh, Vermont. Erected about 1885, it is the town's oldest surviving brick commercial building, built during a period of growth occasioned by the arrival of the railroad in the village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The Leslie Commercial Historic District encompasses a one-block historic area of downtown Leslie, Arkansas. The basically linear district runs on Main Street between Oak and Walnut Streets, and includes 18 buildings and a small city park. Most of the buildings were built in the early decades of the 20th century, and are one and two-story brick buildings.
