Jct. of Race and Spruce Sts., Searcy, Arkansas. County/parish: White.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 13, 1991. NRIS 91001186.
Part of White County MPS (NRIS 64500033).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The American Legion Hall is a historic social meeting hall at Race and Spruce Streets in the center of Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story structure, built out of native fieldstone in 1939 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Its main block has a side-facing gable roof, with a projecting flat-roof section in which the entrance is recessed under a rounded archway. The building is typical of rustic-styled buildings constructed by the WPA and other jobs programs of the Great Depression.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
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