Russellville Downtown Historic District

Coordinates: 35°16′44″N 93°8′6″W / 35.27889°N 93.13500°W

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Russellville Downtown Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


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Location	Roughly bounded by W. 2nd St., Arkansas Ave., Missouri--Pacific RR tracks and El Paso St., Russellville, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°16′44″N 93°8′6″W / 35.27889°N 93.13500°W / 35.27889; -93.13500
Area	19 acres (7.7 ha)
Built	1875–1936
Architect	H. Ray Burks
Architectural style	Early Commercial
NRHP reference No.	96000941^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 3, 1996

The Russellville Downtown Historic District encompasses an eight-block area of downtown Russellville, Arkansas. This area, developed primarily between 1875 and 1930, includes the city's highest concentration of period commercial architecture, a total of 34 buildings. Most of them are brick, one or two stories in height, and in a variety of styles. The district is roughly bounded by Arkansas and West 2nd Streets, El Paso Avenue, and the Missouri-Pacific Railroad tracks.^[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.^[1]

It includes:

Pope County Courthouse (1931), 100 West Main Street, the "dominant" building in the district, a four-story brick building designed by architect H. Ray Burks in Art Deco style^[2]
Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20 (1936), built by Works Progress Administration, separately listed on the National Register^[2]
railroad depot, separately listed on the National Register^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sandra Taylor Smith (May 30, 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-nomination: Russellville Downtown Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved April 30, 2016.

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