Newton County Courthouse (Arkansas)

The Newton County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Jasper, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, constructed out of concrete and limestone, with restrained Art Deco styling. The building has an H shape, with a center section joining flanking projecting wings. The entrance is at the center, with "Newton County" inscribed in a panel above it, with stylized Art Deco elements. It was built in 1939 with funding from the Works Progress Administration.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

Newton County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Courthouse Sq., Jasper, Arkansas
Coordinates	36°0′29″N 93°11′13″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1939 (1939)
Architect	WPA
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	94001412[1]
Added to NRHP	December 1, 1994

Billing itself the "Elk Capital of Arkansas", Jasper worked with Newton County in 2017 to build a large elk statue on the courthouse lawn. Elk were native to Arkansas but had been hunted to extinction locally by the 1840s. Elk were reintroduced to the Boxley Valley area in 1981 in a cooperative program run by several agencies with local landowners. Elk hunting licenses were issued in 1998.[3]

Gallery

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  Façade
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  Courtroom
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  Elk statue

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton County, Arkansas

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "NRHP nomination for Newton County Courthouse" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
3. Bowden, Bill (April 17, 2017). "Jasper on the hunt for large elk statue". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Retrieved January 11, 2020.