The Mutual Aid Union Building is a historic commercial building at 2nd and Poplar Streets in

Rogers, Arkansas Rogers is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. Located in the Ozarks, it is part of the Northwest Arkansas region, one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country. Rogers was the location of the first Walmart store, whose cor ...

. Designed by local architects William E. Matthews and A. O. Clarke and built in 1914, it is one of the region's finest Classical Revival buildings. It is a two-story stone and brick building, with a prominent two-story portico supported by four large Roman columns. The Mutual Aid Union, founded in 1907, was a

mutual insurance A mutual insurance company is an insurance company owned entirely by its policyholders. It is a form of consumers' co-operative. Any profits earned by a mutual insurance company are either retained within the company or rebated to policyholders ...

company which sold policies organized into "circles" of 1,000, with dues-paying members making contributions based on their age. 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 1976.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas Commercial buildings completed in 1913 Buildings and structures in Rogers, Arkansas 1913 establishments in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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