Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum

St. Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School
Location 1708 Archer St.
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Coordinates 36°15′44″N 90°58′53″W / 36.26222°N 90.98139°W / 36.26222; -90.98139Coordinates: 36°15′44″N 90°58′53″W / 36.26222°N 90.98139°W / 36.26222; -90.98139
Area less than one acre
Built 1918
Architectural style Other, Plain-Traditional
NRHP reference # 02000830[1]
Added to NRHP August 5, 2002

The Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum is a historic community building at 1708 Archer Street in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Originally built as an African Methodist Episcopal Church, it is a small one-room wood frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. A flat-roof addition expands the building to the right. The main facade has two entrances, each sheltered by a small gable-roofed hood. The building was built in 1918, to provide facilities for a church and school to the small African-American community in Pocahontas. It served as a church for thirty years, and as a school for fifty, and was later adapted for other uses, most recently as a museum and community center.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the St. Mary's AME Church—Pocahontas Colored School.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for St. Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-01-10.


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