Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139

United States historic place


Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°11′11″N 94°7′47″W / 36.18639°N 94.12972°W / 36.18639; -94.12972
Area	less than one acre
Built	1934
MPS	New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	07000474^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 30, 2007

The Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139 is a historic meeting hall at 200 North Spring Street in Springdale, Arkansas. It is a single-story vernacular structure, built out of rough-cut stone laid in irregular courses, and topped by a gable roof. The building is one of the few remaining stone buildings on Springdale. It was built in 1934 with locally raised funding after a grant proposal to the Civil Works Administration, a federal government jobs program, was rejected. The building has served as a meeting point for a large number of local civic organizations, and has been used as a polling place.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for its architecture and role in the area's social history.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "NRHP nomination for Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-18.