El Dorado Junior College Building
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.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is now part of the South Arkansas Community College campus.
See also
- W. F. & Estelle McWilliams House: Also on the SouthArk campus
- South Arkansas Arboretum: operated by SouthArk
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, Arkansas
References
- ^ "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 April 26, 2014.