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McRae Jail

Coordinates: 35°6′48″N 91°49′16″W / 35.11333°N 91.82111°W / 35.11333; -91.82111
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McRae Jail
McRae Jail is located in Arkansas
McRae Jail
Location in Arkansas
McRae Jail is located in the United States
McRae Jail
Location in United States
LocationE. First St., McRae, Arkansas
Coordinates35°6′48″N 91°49′16″W / 35.11333°N 91.82111°W / 35.11333; -91.82111
Arealess than one acre
Built1934 (1934)
Built byWorks Progress Administration
Architectural styleWPA architecture
MPSWhite County MPS
NRHP reference No.91001344[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 20, 1992

The McRae Jail is a former local jail on East First Street in McRae, Arkansas. It is a small single-story masonry structure, built out of cast concrete. It has a single door with a barred opening, and small openings on the sides, also barred. Built about 1934 with funding from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it is one of three jails built in White County by the WPA, and is of those three the best preserved.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for McRae Jail". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-01-09.