Tucker School (Tucker, Arkansas)

Tucker School
Location Vandalsen Dr., Tucker, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°26′8″N 91°57′21″W / 34.43556°N 91.95583°W / 34.43556; -91.95583Coordinates: 34°26′8″N 91°57′21″W / 34.43556°N 91.95583°W / 34.43556; -91.95583
Area 1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built 1915 (1915)
Architectural style Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP Reference # 05000538[1]
Added to NRHP June 10, 2005

The Tucker School is a historic school building on Vandalsen Drive (one block west of Arkansas Highway 15) in Tucker, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers. On the building's west side, a gable-roofed vestibule projects, with a shed-roof porch in front of it, sheltering the main entrance. It was built about 1915 to serve the area's white students (African-Americans would not get a school facility until a Rosenwald school was built in 1925), and was apparently in use as a school until the early 1960s, when it was converted into a church.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1] At that time, it stood vacant and boarded up.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Tucker School" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-20.


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