The Wheel Store

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The Wheel Store
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LocationRiver and Broad Sts., Batesville, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°46′3″N91°39′0″W / 35.76750°N 91.65000°W / 35.76750; -91.65000 Coordinates: 35°46′3″N91°39′0″W / 35.76750°N 91.65000°W / 35.76750; -91.65000
Arealess than one acre
Built1887 (1887)
Built byIndependence Co. Wheel Cooperative
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Vernacular commercial
NRHP reference No. 88002822 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1988

The Wheel Store is a historic commercial building at River and Broad Streets in Batesville, Arkansas. It is a two-story ashlar sandstone structure, with a flat roof. Its front facade has a single storefront, with two now-filled window openings flanking the entrance on the first level, and two windows above. The building was erected in 1887 to house a store and meeting space for a local chapter of the Agricultural Wheel, an agrarian reform organization established in Arkansas in the early 1880s. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [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 The Wheel Store". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-08-28.