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Arkansas Territorial Restoration

Little Rock, Pulaski County

Photograph of Arkansas Territorial Restoration
Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Louise Loughborough campaigned to save a block of territorial-era buildings in Little Rock, and the WPA supplied the labor to restore them. The museum opened in July 1941 and is now the Historic Arkansas Museum.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1941
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.