Walter B. Sorrells Cottage

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Walter B. Sorrells Cottage
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LocationSoutheastern Arkansas Community Correction Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°13′3″N92°5′16″W / 34.21750°N 92.08778°W / 34.21750; -92.08778
Arealess than one acre
Built1920 (1920)
ArchitectMitchell Seligman, E.C. Royce
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Bungalow/craftsman, English Revival
NRHP reference No. 86002276 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 4, 1986

The Walter B. Sorrells Cottage is a historic administrative (and formerly residential) building on the campus of the Southeastern Arkansas Community Correction Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. It is a two-story frame building, finished in brick on the first floor and stucco and half-timbering on the second, with Craftsman-style eaves adorned with exposed rafter ends and brackets. Built in 1920 to a design by Pine Bluff architect Mitchell Seligman, it was the first permanent structure of what was then known as the Boys Industrial School, a state facility for troubled youth. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]

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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 Walter B. Sorrells Cottage". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-15.