The Perryville American Legion Building is a historic fraternal meeting hall at Plum and Main Streets in

Perryville, Arkansas Perryville is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,460 at the 2010 census, an increase of just two persons from 2000. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock– Conway Me ...

. It is a single story masonry building with Rustic and Tudor styling. It has a steeply pitched gable roof, with a projecting gabled entry vestibule facing the street. The gable ends are decorated with half-timbering, and the roof eaves show exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style. The hall was built in 1935 by the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...

, and is the community's best example of the Rustic style. The building was listed on the U.S.

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in 1990.

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American Legion buildings Cultural infrastructure completed in 1935 Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Perry County, Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas 1935 establishments in Arkansas Rustic architecture in Arkansas Tudor Revival architecture in Arkansas Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas {{PerryCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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