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Arkansas Mid-Century Modern Buildings (page 1)

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Arkadelphia:
Clark County Jail

Martinizing
Crossett, AR		 Post Office
Crossett, AR
This Martinizing Dry Cleaning location was built in 1967. There are other buildings with this same design in North Carolina and Virginia and there may be a few others elsewhere. [map]

This Post Office may have been built in 1970. [map]

More Crossett:
Crossett Municipal Building

El Dorado:
Petroleum Building

Town & Country Liquor
Fort Smith, AR
The Town & Country Liquor store features a round building with a folded plate roof. The sign and building are probably from the 1960s. [map]

Newroads Telecom
Fort Smith, AR
The Newroads Telecom building appears to be from the 1960s. These photos are from 2012. By 2017, the building was housing Pinnacle Telecom. Does anyone know what was here originally? [map]

Little Mexico
Fort Smith, AR
The Little Mexico store had opened by 1955 as the Flash Drive-in restaurant. By 2021, the building was vacant. [map]

former Bergerman-Sharize Clinic
Helena, AR		 Aristocrat Motor Inn
Hot Springs, AR
The Bergerman-Sharize Clinic, a former dental clinic, was built in 1960. The building may have been designed by Alfred Aydelott. [map]

The Aristocrat Motor Inn was built in 1963. In 1978, it was converted into apartments known as the Aristocrat Manor Apartments. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more, see this website. [map]

Jonesboro:
Crowley Ridge Regional Library

Darragh Building
Little Rock, AR
The Darragh Building was designed by Nolan Blass, Jr. of Erhart, Eichenbaum, Rauch, & Blass. It was built in 1958. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now houses Entegrity. [map]

shelter
Little Rock, AR
This concrete shelter is located at the Little Rock Zoo. It was built around 1964. There were two of them here originally. The structure was designed by James Marsh who was also responsible for the similar-looking Medo Camera Shop at the 1964 New York World's Fair and the Hensel Park pavilion in College Station, TX. [map]

City Hall
Magnolia, AR
This City Hall building appears to have been built in the 1960s. [map]

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