Center Valley Well House

United States historic place


Center Valley Well House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


35°19′47″N 93°5′9″W / 35.32972°N 93.08583°W / 35.32972; -93.08583
Area	less than one acre
Built by	Works Progress Administration
Architectural style	Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Plain Traditional
MPS	Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
NRHP reference No.	92001206^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 10, 1992

The Center Valley Well House is a historic water well building on the grounds of the Center Valley Elementary School on Arkansas Highway 124 in Center Valley, Arkansas. It is an open-walled square stone structure, consisting of low stone walls and corner posts, which support a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof. The roof has exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style, and the walls are capped by concrete coping. Two of the walls have openings, which provide access (other than climbing on and over them) to the interior of the structure, which has a concrete floor. It was built in 1940 to shelter the well providing water to the original 1939 school building, using materials left over from its construction. It is a distinctive, yet modest, example of WPA architecture in the community.^[2]

The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Center Valley Well House". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2022-09-30.