Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall | |
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  Location in Arkansas  Location in United States | |
| Location | 100 S. 6th St., Fort Smith, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 35°23′8″N 94°25′34″W / 35.38556°N 94.42611°W |
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built | 1937 |
| Built by | Manhattan Construction Co. |
| Architect | Nelson, Bassham and Wheeler |
| Architectural style | Art Deco, WPA Moderne |
| NRHP reference No. | 93000484[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 8, 1993 |
The Sebastian County Courthouse/Fort Smith City Hall is a historic civic building at 100 South 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large four-story stone and concrete structure with modest Art Deco styling, designed by Fort Smith architects E. Chester Nelson, T. E. Bassham, and Carnall Wheeler[2] and built in 1937 with funding from the Public Works Administration. Its interior lobby and courthouse spaces are richly decorated, with marble walls, terrazzo marble flooring, and ornamental moldings around doorways.[3] The building continues to house county facilities; the city offices are now located on Garrison Avenue.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]
General view
Commemorative plaque
Aluminum Art Deco
Main Entrance Light
Sculpted eagle
See also
References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
- ↑ "NRHP nomination for Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
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