The Mineral Springs Community Building is a historic multiuse civic building on County Road 34 (Green Road) in rural

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east of West Fork. It is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. It was builtin 1915 and enlarged in 1947, giving it its present T shape. The building served the local community as a school, town meeting hall, and church, with the use as a school ending in 1946. The building is a significant example of a surviving

one-room schoolhouse One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and s ...

in the county. The building was listed on the

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in 1998.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1915 City halls in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Arkansas One-room schoolhouses in Arkansas Schools in Washington County, Arkansas 1915 establishments in Arkansas Bungalow architecture in Arkansas American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas {{WashingtonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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