Union Chapel School and Shop Building

The Union Chapel School and Shop Building is a historic school complex in rural Conway County, Arkansas. It is located at the junction of Union Chapel Road and Acker Lane, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Springfield. It consists of three buildings: a classroom, shop building, and pump house. The classroom building is a stone single-story structure, with a gable roof, and bands of sash windows flanking the main entrance, which is set in a rounded-arch opening. The shop building is also stone, and is covered by a hip roof. The shop building was one of several built on the grounds in the late 1920s with funding from the Rosenwald Fund, and is the only one from that period to survive. The classroom building was built in 1937–38 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, replacing one of the Rosenwald buildings that had burned down.[2]

Union Chapel School and Shop Building
Location298 Union Chapel Rd. & 28 Acker Ln., near Springfield, Arkansas
Coordinates35°13′55″N 92°33′21″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1937 (1937)
Built byWorks Progress Administration
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
MPSPublic Schools in the Ozarks MPS
NRHP reference No.15000993[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 26, 2016

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1]

  • Union Chapel School and Shop Building side view
  • Building side view
  • Building plaque

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Union Chapel School and Shop Building" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-14.


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