Wortham_Gymnasium

Wortham Gymnasium

Wortham Gymnasium

United States historic place

The Wortham Gymnasium was a historic athletic facility on Arkansas Highway 200 in Oak Grove, a rural community in Nevada County east of Rosston. Built in 1935 by a Works Progress Administration crew, this large gymnasium was the only surviving remnant of a major push in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the education of African Americans in Oak Grove. It was a single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, with a shed-roofed vestibule area on the main (southern) facade. At the time of its construction, it was the largest gymnasium in the state.[2]

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1] It was removed from the National Register in 2015.

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  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "NRHP nomination for Wortham Gymnasium". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-03.


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