Wortham Gymnasium | |
Location: | AR 200, Oak Grove, Nevada County, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 33.5986°N -93.2386°W |
Architect: | Works Progress Administration |
Architecture: | Bungalow/craftsman |
Added: | April 19, 1990 |
Delisted: | September 29, 2015 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 90000667 |
The Wortham Gymnasium was a historic athletic facility on Arkansas Highway 200 in Oak Grove, a rural community in Nevada County east of Rosston. Built in 1935 by a Works Progress Administration crew, this large gymnasium was the only surviving remnant of a major push in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the education of African Americans in Oak Grove. It was a single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, with a shed-roofed vestibule area on the main (southern) facade. At the time of its construction, it was the largest gymnasium in the state.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was removed from the National Register in 2015.