The Monette Water Tower is a historic elevated steel

water tower A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water distribution system, distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. Water towe ...

located in Hartford, Arkansas. It was built in 1936 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in conjunction with the

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recove ...

as part of a project to improve the local water supply. The project was one of 124 similar projects in the state funded by the PWA. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2008, as part of a multiple-property listing that included numerous other

New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...

-era projects throughout

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

.Arkansas Historic Preservation Program
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An Ambition to be Preferred: New Deal Recovery Efforts and Architecture in Arkansas, 1933-1943, By Holly Hope
Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Towers completed in 1936 Infrastructure completed in 1936 Buildings and structures in Sebastian County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas {{SebastianCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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