Cold Water School
National Register of Historic Places

Cold Water School

Big Flat, Baxter County, Arkansas
Listed
May 28, 2008
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
08000485

About this property

The Cold Water School is a historic school building at 2422 Baxter County Road 73, in the White River watershed northeast of Big Flat, Arkansas, on a privately owned inholding within Ozark National Forest. It was a "traditional one-room schoolhouse". The building is a modest vernacular wood-frame structure with a gable roof and a fieldstone foundation finished with bubble mortar. The exterior of the building is finished in stucco, and its interior walls are plaster. A gabled porch extends from the main facade. The school was built in 1926, replacing an earlier similar building which was destroyed by fire, and was used as a school until 1960, when the district schools were consolidated. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1926.

Location

2422 Co.Rd. 73
Big Flat, Baxter County, Arkansas
36.14242, -92.26631

Categories

EDUCATION
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Cold Water School listed on the National Register?

Cold Water School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 2008.

What type of historic resource is Cold Water School?

Cold Water School is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Cold Water School is recorded as the industrial era.

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