Tucker School (Tucker, Arkansas)

The Tucker School is a historic school building on Vandalsen Drive (one block west of Arkansas Highway 15) in Tucker, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers. On the building's west side, a gable-roofed vestibule projects, with a shed-roof porch in front of it, sheltering the main entrance. It was built about 1915 to serve the area's white students (African-Americans would not get a school facility until a Rosenwald school was built in 1925), and was apparently in use as a school until the early 1960s, when it was converted into a church.[2]

Tucker School
LocationVandalsen Dr., Tucker, Arkansas
Coordinates34°26′8″N 91°57′21″W
Area1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built1915 (1915)
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.05000538[1]
Added to NRHPJune 10, 2005

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1] At that time, it stood vacant and boarded up.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Tucker School" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-20.


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