El Dorado Junior College Building Explained

El Dorado Junior College Building
Location:300 S. West Ave., El Dorado, Arkansas
Coordinates:33.2094°N -92.6661°W
Builder:J.F. Hanson
Works Progress Administration
Architect:John B. Abbott
Architecture:Classical Revival, Art Deco
Added:September 13, 1978
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:78000633

The El Dorado Junior College Building is a historic academic building at 300 South West Avenue in El Dorado, Arkansas. The three-story brick building was built in 1905 as a public school building for the county's white students. From 1925 to 1937 the building house El Dorado Junior College, the first such institution in southwestern Arkansas; it has seen a variety of public and private academic uses since then. The building is shaped roughly like a swastika, and has retained most of its external and internal Classical Revival style.[1]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is now part of the South Arkansas Community College campus.

See also

Also on the SouthArk campus

operated by SouthArk

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for El Dorado Junior College Building . Arkansas Preservation . 2014-04-26 .