Marianna Commercial Historic District

Historic district in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place


Marianna Commercial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


34°46′25″N 90°45′27″W / 34.77353°N 90.75753°W / 34.77353; -90.75753
Area	26 acres (11 ha)
Built	1884 (1884)
Built by	Jennigns and Samuel
Architect	George Mahan, Everette Woods, Estes Mann
Architectural style	Gothic Revival, Italianate, et.al.
NRHP reference No.	00001559^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 4, 2001

The Marianna Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial heart of Marianna, Arkansas, the county seat of Lee County. It comprises two blocks of Main Street and two blocks of Poplar Street, which cross at the northwest corner of Court Square, a city park where the Gen. Robert E. Lee Monument is found, and extends south to include a few buildings on Liberty Street.

Marianna was founded in 1870, and its economy developed around cotton and lumber delivered to market by the L'Anguille River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. The downtown developed a short distance west of the city's boat landing. Its first brick buildings were built in the 1870s, although the oldest remaining today are from the 1880s, including the elaborate Italianate Hayes & Drake building at 38 South Poplar. Court Square Park, a popular community meeting point, faces the Lee County Courthouse. The district includes 70 buildings, of which 48 are historically significant.^[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Marianna Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved October 28, 2014.