Tucker School | |
Location: | Vandalsen Dr., Tucker, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 34.4356°N -91.9558°W |
Architecture: | Bungalow/craftsman |
Added: | June 10, 2005 |
Refnum: | 05000538 |
The Tucker School is a historic school building on Vandalsen Drive (one block west of Arkansas Highway 15) in Tucker, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers. On the building's west side, a gable-roofed vestibule projects, with a shed-roof porch in front of it, sheltering the main entrance. It was built about 1915 to serve the area's white students (African-Americans would not get a school facility until a Rosenwald school was built in 1925), and was apparently in use as a school until the early 1960s, when it was converted into a church.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. At that time, it stood vacant and boarded up.