The McRae Jail is a former local jail on East First Street in

McRae, Arkansas McRae is a city in White County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 682 at the 2010 census, estimated by 2018 to have decreased to 663 residents. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , al ...

. It is a small single-story masonry structure, built out of cast concrete. It has a single door with a barred opening, and small openings on the sides, also barred. Built about 1934 with funding from the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

(WPA), it is one of three jails built in White County by the WPA, and is of those three the best preserved. The building was listed on 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 1992.

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Jails on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Government buildings completed in 1934 National Register of Historic Places in White County, Arkansas 1934 establishments in Arkansas Works Progress Administration in Arkansas {{WhiteCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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