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Buildings of Arkansas (Hardcover)
Cyrus A. Sutherland; As told to Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore, Jeannie M. Whayne
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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 lifetime's
research and fieldwork by the esteemed historian and
preservationist Cyrus A. Sutherland, this book captures the range
and richness of the state's buildings and landscapes, whose stories
can prove as fascinating and gripping as a novel's plotline. Nearly
500 building entries, accompanied by more than 200 illustrations
and 24 maps, encompass the state's major regions-the 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
Walton's Five-and-Ten and Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art to Bill Clinton's 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 known-the magnificent
Toltec Mounds near Scott, the New Deal-era Dyess Colony, Tyronza's
Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Rohwer Relocation Center and
McGehee Japanese American Internment Museum, Central High School in
Little Rock-and considers modern buildings that herald a
renaissance in the state's cultural, economic, and political
history.
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