Cleveland Arms building considered for Register
The Cleveland Arms apartment building in Hot Springs is among 18 properties out of 13 counties in Arkansas being considered for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places next month.
The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program will consider the properties at its next meeting on April 4 at the Department of Arkansas Heritage Building in Little Rock, a news release said.
The board will also consider the Dierks Lumber Co. Building, located at 308 Fourth St. in Mountain Pine for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. Non-historic alterations preclude its listing on the National Register.
The Cleveland Arms, located at 2410 Central Ave., is a circa 1945 Art Moderne-style apartment building with Art Deco-style details. It was “one of two sister-apartment complexes built by Hot Springs insurance and real estate man, Thomas H. Cleveland after the second World War, with Federal Housing Authority loans,” according to the nomination.
“The two buildings were designed as complimentary Art Moderne style buff-brick structures with Art Deco detailing, by local architect Irven Donald McDaniel,” it states.
The Dierks Lumber Co. building, built in 1927, is noteworthy “for its association with the his
tory of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, later known as Dierks Forest, Inc., and the development of the community of Mountain Pine,” according to the nomination.
“The Dierks Lumber and Coal Company Office was constructed in 1927 as one of the earliest buildings in the company town of Mountain Pine, Arkansas, during the planning and construction of the nearby lumber mill and the surrounding company owned residential and commercial structures.”
Other properties to be considered for nomination to the National Register are the Mosaic Templars State Temple and Fulk-Arkansas Democrat Building at Little Rock and the Carmichael House in the Landmark community in Pulaski County; Goodwin Field Administration Building at El Dorado; Washington Street Historic District Boundary Increase at Camden; Schumaker Naval Ammunition Depot Barracks Buildings and Schumaker Naval Ammunition Depot Administration Building at East Camden; Mount Salem Church and School near Paris in Logan County; C.A. Stuck and Sons Lumber Office Building at Jonesboro; Nevada County Courthouse at Prescott; Lockesburg Gymnasium at Lockesburg in Sevier County; Eureka Springs Cemetery at Eureka Springs; Carpenter Building at Gentry in Benton County; Deepwood House at Fayetteville; Prairie Grove Commercial Historic District and North Mock Street Commercial Historic District at Prairie Grove in Washington County, and Farm #266 (Johnny Cash Boyhood Home) at Dyess in Mississippi County.
The board also will consider Lines Cemetery near Preston in Faulkner County, Petit Jean Mountain Cemetery near Winrock in Conway County, Schumaker Naval Ammunition Depot Laundry Building at East Camden in Calhoun County, Ellis Building at Fayetteville and Harrell Cemetery near Cincinnati in Washington County for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places.
The AHPP is the Department of Arkansas Heritage division that identifies, evaluates, registers and preserves the state’s cultural resources.