June 2021 Arkansas Historic Preservation Program

For those of us at the Arkansas Historic Preservation

Program, June is the time of year when we amp up our historic site surveys in preparation for future National

Register of Historic Places nominations, begin working with our grant recipients on courthouse and historic restorations, start planning fall 2021 classroom activities for schools across our state, make site visits to our Main Street programs and much more.

July 9 at noon on our Facebook and YouTube channels, we are presenting a special Sandwiching in History in collaboration with our sister agency, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. We will be visiting the largest collection of intact “Green Book” properties in the state, located along the Pleasant Street Historic District in Hot Springs.

This June our Main Street team presented Downtown Restoration Grants to our Main Street programs across the state at North Little Rock’s Argenta Plaza. These grants allow the programs opportunities to think big in their communities and create lasting opportunities for revitalization.

And news from Baxter County, our historic site there, the Jacob Wolf House, will begin phase two of historic restoration projects which may limit access to some or all of the site between Aug. 2021 and April 2022. If you plan to stop by, please reach out to the site first to determine level of accessibility available on that day.

The National Baptist Hotel in the heart of the Pleasant Street Historic District