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The Sebastian County Courthouse/Fort Smith City Hall is a historic civic building at 100 South 6th Street in
Fort Smith, Arkansas Fort Smith is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, third-most populous city in Arkansas, United States, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas, Sebastian County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the pop ...
. It is a large four-story stone and concrete structure with modest
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
styling, designed by Fort Smith architects E. Chester Nelson and Bassham & Wheeler and built in 1937 with funding from the
Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was ...
. Its interior lobby and courthouse spaces are richly decorated, with marble walls, terrazzo marble flooring, and ornamental moldings around doorways. The building continues to house county facilities; the city offices are now located on Garrison Avenue. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1993. File:Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Southeast View.JPG , General view File:Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Plaque.JPG , Commemorative plaque File:Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Aluminum Art Deco Detail Above Main Entrance.JPG , Aluminum Art Deco File:Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Main Entrance Light Detail.JPG , Main Entrance Light File:Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Carved Eagle Detail.JPG , Sculpted eagle


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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Art Deco architecture in Arkansas Government buildings completed in 1937 Buildings and structures in Fort Smith, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Courthouses in Arkansas {{SebastianCountyAR-NRHP-stub