The state review board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program has nominated 16 properties for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
The board met April 3 and made its decision, according to a news release from the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
The 16 properties are:
• The Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain, built in 1964, about 9 miles southwest of Morrilton.
• Temple Beth El Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery established in 1875 in what is now Helena-West Helena.
• Our Lady of the Ozarks, a 1940s Catholic shrine and stone church near Winslow in Crawford County.
• National Old Line Insurance Co. Building in Little Rock, a 1953-54 and 1965 International-style office building.
• Arkansas Territorial Restoration Historic District in Little Rock, a district significant as an early historic preservation project in the state.
• Empire Life Insurance Co. of America Building in Little Rock, a notable example of the International style designed by Wittenberg, Delony and Davidson, and built in 1959-60.
• Morris House in Lonoke, a large-scale, mid-century modern house built in 1963 and designed by architect Fred Perkins.
• Central Avenue Historic District additional documentation in Hot Springs, an update to the National Register nomination for the historic district.
• Mount Olive Cemetery near Mount Vernon in White County, an 1890s black cemetery that is still used for burials today.
• Norwood House in Russellville, a 1917 house with prairie- and craftsman-style characteristics.
• Former U.S. post office and federal courthouse in Jonesboro, a 1913 building designed in the Renaissance style.
• R.A. Pickens II House in Pickens, Desha County, a colonial revival-style house built around 1940.
• Yadkin Church near Ravenden Springs in Randolph County, a one-room church built around 1894 that is one of the last vestiges of the Yadkin community.
• Muxen Building near Winslow, a 1940s building built to serve as a craft school for residents.
• Ben Johnson II Homestead District in Fayetteville, an early 20th century fruit farm.
• Ellis Building in Fayetteville, a circa 1923 automobile sales and service building.
During the meeting, the state review board also approved the addition of the Murphy-Jeffries Building in Little Rock, Gillham School in Gillham and the Heffelfinger-Freund House in Fayetteville to the Arkansas Register.
Metro on 04/15/2019