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.