The Rison Texaco Service Station is a historic
automobile service station at 216 Main Street (corner of Third Street) in
Rison, Arkansas
Rison is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 1,344 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is included in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Rison is a bedroom community for people ...
. It is a distinctive
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 ...
structure built c. 1926. Since 1990 it has housed a timber company.
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 2002.
See also
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Rison Cities Service Station, an English Revival station just up the road
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References
Gas stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Art Deco architecture in Arkansas
Commercial buildings completed in 1926
National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland County, Arkansas
1926 establishments in Arkansas
Transportation in Cleveland County, Arkansas
Texaco
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