Center Valley Well House
Center Valley Well House | |
Location | AR 124, Center Valley, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 35°19′47″N 93°5′9″W / 35.32972°N 93.08583°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built by | Works Progress Administration |
Architectural style | Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Plain Traditional |
MPS | Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 92001206[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 10, 1992 |
The Center Valley Well House is a historic water well building on the grounds of the Center Valley Elementary School on Arkansas Highway 124 in Center Valley, Arkansas. It is an open-walled square stone structure, consisting of low stone walls and corner posts, which support a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof. The roof has exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style, and the walls are capped by concrete coping. Two of the walls have openings, which provide access (other than climbing on and over them) to the interior of the structure, which has a concrete floor. It was built in 1940 to shelter the well providing water to the original 1939 school building, using materials left over from its construction. It is a distinctive, yet modest, example of WPA architecture in the community.[2]
The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
See also
[edit]- Col. John Critz Farm Springhouse: NRHP-listed in White County, Arkansas
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Pope County, Arkansas
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Center Valley Well House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- National Register of Historic Places in Pope County, Arkansas
- 1940 establishments in Arkansas
- American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas
- Works Progress Administration in Arkansas
- Water wells in the United States
- Water supply infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Education in Pope County, Arkansas
- Water supply infrastructure in Arkansas
- Northwest Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs