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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Little Rock, Pulaski County

Photograph of Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Photo: Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source

Little Rock's Museum of Fine Arts opened in MacArthur Park in 1937, built with $25,000 in WPA money that Franklin Roosevelt approved. Its original facade, hidden inside the museum for decades, is again an outside wall and the main entrance after the recent renovation.

Kind of place
Libraries, armories and community buildings
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1937
Where
Little Rock, Pulaski County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.