The Norwood School is a historic school building on Old Norwood Church Road near the

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

of Norwood in south

Benton County, Arkansas Benton County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. Created as Arkansas' 35th county on September 30, 1836, Benton County contains thirteen incorporated municipalities, including Bentonville, the county seat, and ...

. It is a modest single-story stone building, fashioned out of rough-cut local fieldstone, topped by a hip roof with exposed rafter ends. A pair of entrances are sheltered by a gabled portico supported by a stone arch. It was built by the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to car ...

in 1937, and is the only building of its type in Benton County. The property also includes an original stone outhouse. The building was listed on the

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in January 1988.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas School buildings completed in 1937 Schools in Benton County, Arkansas Works Progress Administration in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas 1937 establishments in Arkansas {{BentonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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