The Monette Water Tower is a historic structure located at the junction of

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and Texie Avenue in

Monette, Arkansas Monette is a city in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The city is located in an area of Northeast Arkansas known as Buffalo Island. The population was 1,506 at the 2020 census. History The city of Monette was initially settled in 189 ...

. It was built in 1936 by the

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in conjunction with 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 ...

as part of a project to improve the area's water supply. The Monette Water Tower is considered a good example of a 1930s-era elevated steel water tank. It was added to the

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in 2008, as part of a multiple-property listing that included numerous other

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-era projects throughout

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.Arkansas Historic Preservation Program

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An Ambition to be Preferred: New Deal Recovery Efforts and Architecture in Arkansas, 1933-1943, By Holly Hope
Towers completed in 1936 Infrastructure completed in 1936 Buildings and structures in Craighead County, Arkansas Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Public Works Administration in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Craighead County, Arkansas {{CraigheadCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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