Russellville is the county seat and largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a 2021 estimated population of 30,971. It is home to Arkansas Tech University. Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant is nearby. Russellville borders Lake Dardanelle and the Arkansas River.
Arkansas Tech University (ATU) is a public university in Russellville, Arkansas. The university offers programs at both baccalaureate and graduate levels in a range of fields. The Arkansas Tech University–Ozark Campus, a two-year satellite campus in the town of Ozark, primarily focuses on associate and certificate education.
Philander Smith College is a private historically black college, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Philander Smith College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is a founding member of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Philander Smith College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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.
The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2009. The district covers the historic core of the University of Arkansas campus, including 25 buildings.
The Russellville Masonic Temple, also known as Russellville City Hall, is a clubhouse and municipal building at 205 South Commerce Street in Russellville, Arkansas. Built in 1926, it is a Classical Revival building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The History of Louisiana Tech University began when the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana was founded in Ruston, Louisiana in 1894. The institute was founded to develop an industrial economy in the state of Louisiana. Four years later, the school was renamed the Louisiana Industrial Institute when Louisiana adopted the Constitution of 1898. When the Constitution of 1921 was passed, the school changed its name again to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute to reflect the school's evolution from a trade school into a larger and broader technical institute. Although the university was informally called Louisiana Tech for about five decades after the 1921 name change, it was not until 1970 when Louisiana Polytechnic Institute officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University. Over the course of its history, the school grew from a small industrial institute with one building to a university with five colleges and an enrollment of around 11,800 students.
The Domestic Science Building is a historic school building at 11th and Haddock in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It was on the old campus of Arkadelphia High School, used for domestic science courses until the 1980s. It is now unused, but remains the property of the Arkadelphia School District.
The Girls' Domestic Science and Arts Building is an academic building on the campus of the Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry building, with a tile hip roof, and walls finished in brick and stone. The roof is pierced by hip-roofed dormers on both the long and short sides. It was built in 1913 and extensively renovated in 1935. It is now known as the Old Art Building. The Public Works Administration provided funds for school construction in January 1934, of which $7,500 was allocated for renovating this building.
Overstreet Hall is a historic academic building on the campus of Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas. It is located at the junction of East University and North Jackson Streets, occupying a prominent visual position approaching the campus from the south. It is a three-story brick building with Colonial Revival features. It has a hip roof with dormers, and a Doric order six-column portico with pediments at the center of the main facade. It was built in 1941–43 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration. It currently houses the university's administrative offices.
Caraway Hall is a historic dormitory building on the campus of Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas, U.S. It is a brick building with Colonial Revival styling, built in 1934 with funding from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, later known as the Public Works Administration. It is roughly H-shaped, with a central three-story section with a gabled roof and end chimneys, which is flanked by two-story flat-roofed wings, one longer than the other.
Hughes Hall is a historic dormitory at the corner of West M and North Glenwood Streets, on the campus of Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone building in a U-shaped plan, with a hip roof and stone foundation. The roof of its front facade is pierced by two small hip-roofed dormers. It was built as a classroom building in 1940, with funding support from the Works Progress Administration. In 2009, it was converted into a dormitory.
The Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building is a historic federal government office building at 605 West Main Street in Russellville, Arkansas. It is two story stone and frame structure, built in 1939 by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The building is distinctive urban adaptation of the Rustic style for which the CCC became well known. Originally built to house both the main offices of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest and local CCC administrators, it is now used exclusively by the former.
The Latimore Tourist Home is a historic tourist accommodation at South Houston Avenue and West 5th Street in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame I-house, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and stone foundation. A two-story porch extends across its front facade. Its construction date is uncertain, but before 1913. It was used as an accommodation for traveling African Americans during the 20th century period of racial segregation and Jim Crow laws, and was described in 1949's The Negro Motorist Green Book. It was moved in 2022 to its present location from its original location at South Houston Avenue and West 3rd Place.
The Missouri-Pacific Depot is a historic railroad station at South Denver Avenue and West C Street in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a long rectangular single-story masonry building, finished in brick and stucco and covered by a hip roof with supporting Italianate brackets. At one end, the roof extends beyond the structure to form a sheltered area, and the telegrapher's booth projects from the building's north (track-facing) side. It was built about 1910 by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and is typical of that railroad's period stations; its original tile roof has been replaced by composition shingles.
The former Mountain View School, now the Russellville Fire Station No. 2, is a historic school building at 109 Hilltop Drive in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of fieldstone and covered by a hip roof. Its entrance are sheltered under a project gable-roofed porch with square columns set on stone piers. The school was built in 1926, during a period of significant growth in the city's history.
The former Physical Education Building of the Arkansas Tech University is a historic academic building at 1502 North El Paso Avenue in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick Classical Revival structure, built in 1937 with funding from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Now known as the Techionery Building, the building currently houses the Arkansas Tech Museum with displays about the history of the university.
The Russellville Downtown Historic District encompasses an eight-block area of downtown Russellville, Arkansas. This area, developed primarily between 1875 and 1930, includes the city's highest concentration of period commercial architecture, a total of 34 buildings. Most of them are brick, one or two stories in height, and in a variety of styles. The district is roughly bounded by Arkansas and West 2nd Streets, El Paso Avenue, and the Missouri-Pacific Railroad tracks.
Wilson Hall is a historic dormitory building on the campus of Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of North El Paso Street, just north of West M Street. It is a large two-story brick building with Colonial Revival styling, consisting of a central block, from which symmetrical wings extend forward from its ends, ending in slightly wider "houses". It was built in 1925, during a period of expansion in which the school, then the Second District Agricultural School, began offering four-year degree programs.
