The Polk County Courthouse is a historic government building at Church Avenue and DeQueen Streets in

Mena, Arkansas Mena ( ) is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Polk County. The population was 5,558 as of the 2020 census. Mena is included in the Ark-La-Tex socio-economic region. Surrounded by the Ouachita National F ...

, the county seat of

Polk County Polk County is the name of twelve counties in the United States, all except two named after president of the United States James Knox Polk: * Polk County, Arkansas * Polk County, Florida * Polk County, Georgia * Polk County, Iowa * Polk Count ...

. The original portion of the building is a two-story light-colored brick structure, with restrained

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

styling. It was designed by Haralson and Mott of Fort Smith, and was built in 1939 with funding from the

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. To the rear of the courthouse is a modern wing, joined by a breezeway. The original building is little-altered—only its front doors have been replaced with modern glass and aluminum doors. The building was listed on the

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in 1992.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Art Deco architecture in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Polk County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Arkansas {{PolkCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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