El Dorado Junior College Building

United States historic place


El Dorado Junior College Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


33°12′34″N 92°39′58″W / 33.20944°N 92.66611°W / 33.20944; -92.66611
Area	less than one acre
Built	1905 (1905)
Built by	J.F. Hanson Works Progress Administration
Architect	John B. Abbott
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	78000633^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 13, 1978

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.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1] It is now part of the South Arkansas Community College campus.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System – (#78000633)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for El Dorado Junior College Building". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-04-26.