The Hiwasse Bank Building is a historic commercial building in the rural community of

Hiwasse, Arkansas Hiwasse was an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 497. It is the location of (or is the nearest community to) Hiwasse Bank Building, which is ...

. It is located on

Arkansas Highway 279 Arkansas Highway 279 (AR 279 and Hwy. 279) is a north–south List of Arkansas state highways, state highway in Benton County, Arkansas. The route runs from Arkansas Highway 12 at Vaughn, Arkansas, Vaughn north to the Missouri state line thro ...

, a short way south of its junction with

Arkansas Highway 72 Arkansas Highway 72 (AR 72) is a designation for two east–west state highways in Benton County, Arkansas. One segment of runs from Highway 43 at Maysville east to Walton Boulevard in Bentonville. A second segment of runs from Inters ...

, abutting a similar but slightly newer commercial building. The building is a single-story brick building, with its front facade divided into three sections by iron stanchions. The left two bays have wood-frame windows in them, that on the right, the entrance flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom. Above these is a brick panel defined by a frame of corbelled brick. The interior has retained elements of its original pressed metal ceiling. Built c. 1890, it represents (despite deteriorating condition) the best of commercial architecture of that period in the small community. The building was listed on the

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in 1988. File:HIWASSE BANK BUILDING, BENTON COUNTY, AR.jpg, The bank may have been destroyed or extensively remodeled after extreme deterioration. This building stands on the site. (2015 photo)

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Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Commercial buildings completed in 1890 National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas 1890 establishments in Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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