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 and known as St. Mary's AME 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 known as Pocahontas Colored School for fifty, and was later adapted for other uses, most recently as a museum and community center.[2]
St. Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School | |
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| Location | 1708 Archer St. Pocahontas, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 36°15′44″N 90°58′53″W / 36.26222°N 90.98139°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1918 |
| Architectural style | Plain-Traditional |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000830[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 5, 2002 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the St. Mary's AME Church—Pocahontas Colored School.[1] It was a one-room schoolhouse.[2]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Claudia C. Shannon; Amy Bennett (March 2, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Mary's AME Church / Pocahontas Colored School / Edie Mae Herron Center". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
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