New Liberty School | |
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Location | S side of AR 22, Liberty, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 35°16′53″N93°21′43″W / 35.28139°N 93.36194°W Coordinates: 35°16′53″N93°21′43″W / 35.28139°N 93.36194°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman, Plain Traditional |
MPS | Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 92001220 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 10, 1992 |
The New Liberty School is a historic school building in rural Logan County, Arkansas. It is located east of New Blaine, on the south side of Arkansas Highway 22 east of the New Liberty Church. It is a single-story masonry structure, built of coursed stone and covered by a metal hip roof. Its front entrance is sheltered by a gabled portico supported by simple square posts set on brick piers. It was built in 1922, and is a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century school, built before Arkansas instituted significant reforms in school building standards. [2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1] The building now stands vacant.
Highway 22 is an east–west state highway in the Arkansas River Valley. The highway runs 75.60 miles (121.67 km) from US 64/US 71B east to Highway 7 in Dardanelle. The highway is one of the original 1926 state highways, and is maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Logan County, Arkansas.
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Elizabeth Hall is a historical building off Arkansas Highway 22 in New Blaine, Arkansas. It was built in 1867 as a Masonic meeting hall with funding and land donated by Masonic lodge members of Elizabeth Lodge 215 F & A M. The building is also known by that lodge's name. The lodge meets in the upper floor, while the ground floor has served as a school, a church, and a funeral chapel. The building has been described as "one of the finest remaining rural structures erected in nineteenth-century Arkansas". It was built "under the supervision of the New Blaine sheriff, E. N. Griffeth."
The New Hope School is a historic schoolhouse at 3762 Arkansas Highway 284, east of Wynne, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure with simple Plain-Traditional style, which was built in stages. In 1903 a single-room schoolhouse was built to serve the students of District 25, to which a second classroom was added sometime before 1930, resulting in the building's present appearance. This building was used as a school until 1951, after which it was purchased by a local peach farmer for use in his business. In 2007 the building was donated to the Cross County Historical Society, which has overseen its restoration.
The Liberty School Cafeteria is a historic school building in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 36, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of its junction with United States Route 64, about midway between Conway and Vilonia. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof that has exposed rafter ends in the American craftsman style. It was built in 1935 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration, and originally housed classrooms for science, agriculture and math, as part of a consolidated regional primary school. In the 1940s it was converted into a cafeteria. The school district was further consolidated with Vilonia in the 1950s and 1960s, when this building's school function ceased. The grounds are now used for a flea market.
The Union Church and School is a historic combination church and school in rural Logan County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of Paris, on the south side of Union Road at its junction with Clayton Lane. It is a vernacular single-story L-shaped wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a stone foundation. The right side of the building, a cross-gable section, was built about 1895, and the left portion was built about 1922. It served the surrounding community as a two-room school until 1948, and as a Presbyterian church until 1958.
The Anhalt Barn is a historic barn in rural eastern Logan County, Arkansas. It is located west of New Blaine, near the junction of Old Military and Artesian Well Roads. It is a 1-1/2 story timber frame structure, with a gabled roof and a tall fieldstone foundation. It is laid out as a double crib with a central drive. It was built in 1878 by George Henry Anhalt, a German immigrant, and is the only known barn in the county that has construction based on German barn-building principles.
Park Hill is a historic house at 400 East Wahl Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a large two-story brick building, with Mediterranean style. It has a red tile hip roof, with a three-bay porch projecting from its five-bay facade, and a porte cochere on the west side. The house was built in 1929-30 as a wedding present from Charles Wahl to his wife, and was designed by Bassham and Wheeler of Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a distinctive local example of the Mediterranean Revival style.
The Old Logan County Jail is a historic government building at 202 North Vine Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a hip roof with exposed rafter ends. Its main facade has a single-story porch extending across the front. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings, with strap-metal bars set across them in a crosshatch pattern. There are two entrances, one for the jailer's quarters, and one with bars that provides access to the cell block. Built in 1903, it is one of the state's best-preserved early 20th-century county jails. It is the site of the last legal hanging in Arkansas, which took place when John Arthur Tillman, 23, was hung on July 15, 1914 at 7 am for the murder of Amanda Jane Stephens, 19.
The New Blaine School is a historic school building at the junction of Arkansas Highway 22 and Spring Road in New Blaine, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built of coursed stone and covered by a complex gable-on-hip roof with triangular dormers. Its entrances are sheltered by Craftsman-style gabled porticos, supported by tapered square posts set on stone piers. It was built in 1925 by a local contractor to replace an older school.
The Booneville Commercial Historic District encompasses the early 20th-century commercial heart of Booneville, Arkansas. Located on the east side of the 100 and 200 blocks of North Broadway Avenue are line with commercial buildings, most of which were built between about 1900 and 1920. The city had originally been located south of this location, but was relocated beginning in 1899 due to the arrival of the railroad joining Little Rock, Arkansas and McAlester, Oklahoma. Most of the buildings are in typical early 20th century vernacular commercial styling.
The Dr. Stephen N. Chism House is a historic house in rural Logan County, Arkansas. It is located north of Booneville, on the east side of Arkansas Highway 23 about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of its junction with Arkansas Highway 217. It is a two-story log dogtrot house, with two log pens flanking an open breezeway, with a gable roof for cover. Built about 1844–45, it is believed to be the oldest log building in the county. Log Builder Paul Glidewell completed the complete restoration of the house in late 2013.
The Farmer's State Bank is a historic commercial building on Seller Street in New Blaine, Arkansas. It is a long rectangular single-story masonry structure, built of cut fieldstone and covered by a flat parapeted roof. The front facade has a single storefront, consisting of plate glass windows flanking a double-door entry, with large transom windows above all three elements. Built in 1922, it is the sole surviving commercial building along what was once New Blaine's commercial downtown area.
The Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District is located at 366 North Broadway Avenue in Booneville, Arkansas. It is a three-story masonry building, built out of buff brick with limestone trim. It is stylistically in a restrained version of Italian Renaissance styling, with arched windows on the second level separated by pilasters with limestone capitals and bases. It was the second courthouse for the southern district of Logan County, built on the site of the first.
The Logan County Courthouse, Eastern District is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Paris, the shire town for the eastern portion of Logan County, Arkansas. It is a handsome two story Classical Revival building, built out of brick and set on a foundation of cut stone. It has classical temple porticos on three sides, and is topped by an octagonal tower with clock and belfry. It was built in 1908, and is one of the city's most architecturally imposing buildings.
The Liberty Schoolhouse, also known as the Mt. Grove School, is a historic schoolhouse in a remote part of Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Logan County, Arkansas. It is east of Corley, Arkansas, near the junction of Valentine Spring and Copper Spring Roads. It is a single-story vernacular wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of concrete block piers. It was built in 1897, and was used by the community as both a school and church. It served as a school until 1944, and also hosted civic meetings and social events.
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