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.[2]

El Dorado Junior College Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	300 S. West Ave., El Dorado, Arkansas
Coordinates	33°12′34″N 92°39′58″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1905 (1905)
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	78000633[1]
Added to NRHP	September 13, 1978

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

See also

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

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "NRHP nomination for El Dorado Junior College Building" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-04-26.