Aggie Workshop

United States historic place


Aggie Workshop
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°8′32″N 92°46′51″W / 36.14222°N 92.78083°W / 36.14222; -92.78083
Area	2.3 acres (0.93 ha)
Built by	Smith-Hughes Aggie Boys
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman, plain traditional
MPS	Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
NRHP reference No.	92001113^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 4, 1992

The Aggie Workshop is a historic former school building on Marion County Road 5010 in Bruno, Arkansas. It is a single-story L-shaped structure, built out of local stone and topped by a hip roof with Craftsman-style exposed rafter tails. The WPA-approved building was built in 1935 by the Lincoln Aggie Club and was used as a vocational stone and cement workshop, as part of the local Bruno Agricultural School. A cement swimming pool, contemporaneous to the building's construction, is located in the crook of the L.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992,^[1] at which time it was used for storage.^[2] It is located just north of Aggie Hall.

Lincoln Aggie Club

The Lincoln Aggie Club was organized in 1923^[3] by a local teacher. It later became a chapter of the Future Farmers of America, the oldest chapter in Arkansas and one of the oldest in the nation (Arkansas was the second state to get an FFA charter, after Virginia.).^[4] The members of the club built a workshop, Aggie Hall (a community recreation center), and Aggie Workshop.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Aggie Workshop". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2017-09-04. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
^ "Third annual father and son banquet of the Smith-Hughes School". The Mountain Echo. Yellville, Arkansas. February 11, 1926. p. 1. Retrieved September 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^ J. C. Atherton (1954). "Long ago in Arkansas" (PDF). archives.iupui.edu. p. 20. Retrieved September 4, 2017.