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Hoo Hoo Theatre Historic

The Hoo-Hoo Theater on East First Street in Gurdon will be consider for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. Originally a brick structure, the Hoo-Hoo Theater received a stucco veneer and an art deco facade in 1940. The building is not eligible for the National Register, because of its advanced state of deterioration and loss of historic features.

The Hoo Hoo Theater may be going into the Arkansas Register of Historic Places.

The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (AHPP), an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, will consider other properties from 15 Arkansas counties, in addition to the old theater.

A site being considered for the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County is Rose Hill Cemetery in Arkadelphia. In all there will be 17 properties considered. AHPP director Cathy Slater made the announcement last week.

The meeting of the review board will be Wednesday, September 3, at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church at 4823 Woodlawn in Little Rock. The meeting begins at 10:00 a.m.

Rose Hill Cemetery, located on the 1200 block of Main Street at Arkadelphia, was founded in 1876 and contains burials dating from as early as the 1850s, when some remains were moved from the early Blakely Cemetery in Arkadelphia.

Prominent Arkansasns interred at Rose Hill Cemetery include Harris Flanagin, a Confederate governor of Arkansas, Jacob Barkman, a prominent citizen of early Clark County, and former steamboat operator and U.S. Marshal Flave Carpenter.

Other properties to be considered for National Register nomination are Harris House and Lamb-McSwain House at Little Rock in Pulaski County, Noricks Chapel School near Mountain View in Stone County, Harrison Courthouse Square Historic District at Harrison in Boone County, W.E. O'Bryant Bell Tower, and Mills House at Pine Bluff in Jefferson County, Barrett-Rogers Building at Hazen in Prairie County, Utley House at Cabot in Lonoke County, Sailor House at Bigelow in Perry County, Clifton and Greening Streets Historic District at Camden in Ouachita County, Lake Leatherwood Historic District at Eureka Springs in Carroll County, Hamilton Apartments at West Memphis in Crittenden County, Mount Vernon Methodist Church at Mount Vernon in Faulkner County, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church at Foreman in Little River County, First Baptist Church at Eudora in Chicot County and First Presbyterian Church-Berry House at Dardanelle in Yell County.

The board will also consider the Ca. 1925 Hoo-Hoo Theater on East First Street at Gurdon for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. Originally a brick structure, the Hoo-Hoo Theater received a stucco veneer and an Art Deco facade designed by Texas architect Jack Corgan in 1940.

The building is not eligible for the National Register because of its advanced state of deterioration and loss of historic features.

In addition, the board will consider the Wylds House at Forrest City in St. Francis County and the Fakes-Bull House at McCrory in Woodruff County for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Register recognizes historically significant properties that, because of alterations, are ineligible for National Register designation.

The AHPP is responsible for identifying, evaluating, registering and preserving the state's cultural resources.

Other DAH agencies are the Arts Council, the Delta Cultural Center, the Commemorative Commission, the Natural Heritage Commission and the Territorial Restoration.