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Home Economics School Building

Portia, Lawrence County

Portia's Home Economics and FFA building, a combined youth center and classroom built by the National Youth Administration in 1937 and 1938, has been called the best local example of the native-stone rustic style the WPA used across the Ozarks.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
When
1937 to 1938
Where
Portia, Lawrence 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.