Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum

Historic church in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place


St. Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°15′44″N 90°58′53″W / 36.26222°N 90.98139°W / 36.26222; -90.98139
Area	less than one acre
Built	1918
Architectural style	Plain-Traditional
NRHP reference No.	02000830^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 5, 2002

The Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum is a historic community building at 1708 Archer Street in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Originally built as an African Methodist Episcopal Church and known as St. Mary's AME Church, it is a small one-room wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. A flat-roof addition expands the building to the right. The main facade has two entrances, each sheltered by a small gable-roofed hood. The building was built in 1918, to provide facilities for a church and school to the small African-American community in Pocahontas. It served as a church for thirty years, and as a school known as Pocahontas Colored School for fifty, and was later adapted for other uses, most recently as a museum and community center.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the St. Mary's AME Church—Pocahontas Colored School.^[1] It was a one-room schoolhouse.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Claudia C. Shannon; Amy Bennett (March 2, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Mary's AME Church / Pocahontas Colored School / Edie Mae Herron Center". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2015-01-10.