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Baxter County Courthouse

Mountain Home, Baxter County

Photograph of Baxter County Courthouse
Photo: Original uploader was Sweetmoose6 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source

WPA crews built this cut-stone and buff-brick courthouse in Mountain Home between 1941 and 1943. Its plain design, by Fayetteville architect T. Ewing Shelton, reflects the practical style of the time. Inside, the two-story courtroom still has its hickory paneling. How to pay for it caused real arguments in the county.

Kind of place
Courthouses, post offices and city halls
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
1941 to 1943
Where
Mountain Home, Baxter 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.