Buildings of Arkansas

From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume in the Buildings of the United States series provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Arkansas. The result of a lifetimes research and fieldwork by the esteemed historian and preservationist Cyrus A. Sutherland, this book captures the range and richness of the states buildings and landscapes, whose stories can prove as fascinating and gripping as a novels plotline. Nearly 500 building entries, accompanied by more than 200 illustrations and 24 maps, encompass the states major regionsthe Ozark Plateau, the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (commonly known as the Delta). The places canvassed include everything from works by Arkansas natives E. Fay Jones and Edward Durell Stone to Sam Waltons Five-and-Ten and Alice Waltons Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Bill Clintons birthplace and presidential library. The volume highlights the role and resilience of mountain, valley, and Mississippi River communities; surveys significant state and national parks; and traces the lively history of such resorts as Hot Springs and Eureka Springs. Along the way, it offers compelling accounts of sites from the well to the lesser knownthe magnificent Toltec Mounds near Scott, the New Dealera Dyess Colony, Tyronzas Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Rohwer Relocation Center and McGehee Japanese American Internment Museum, Central High School in Little Rockand considers modern buildings that herald a renaissance in the states cultural, economic, and political history.