The Russellville Downtown Historic District encompasses an eight-block area of downtown

Russellville, Arkansas Russellville is the county seat of and the largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a 2022 estimated population of 29,133. It is home to Arkansas Tech University. Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant is nea ...

. This area, developed primarily between 1875 and 1930, includes the city's highest concentration of period commercial architecture, a total of 34 buildings. Most of them are brick, one or two stories in height, and in a variety of styles. The district is roughly bounded by Arkansas and West 2nd Streets, El Paso Avenue, and the

Missouri-Pacific Railroad The Missouri Pacific Railroad , commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. In 1967, the railroad ...

tracks. The district was listed on the

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in 1996. It includes: *Pope County Courthouse (1931), 100 West Main Street, the "dominant" building in the district, a four-story brick building designed by architect H. Ray Burks in

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 ...

style * Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20 (1936), built by Works Progress Administration, separately listed on the National Register *

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, separately listed on the National Register

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Pope County, Arkansas Buildings and structures in Russellville, Arkansas Commercial buildings completed in 1936 Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings designated early commercial in the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas {{PopeCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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