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DeQueen and Eastern Railroad Machine Shop

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
96000643

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Built
  
1905 (1905)

Opened
  
1905

Added to NRHP
  
20 June 1996

DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop

Location
  
Northwestern edge of DeQueen and Eastern RR yard, adjacent to AR 329, De Queen, Arkansas

MPS
  
Railroad Era Resources of Southwest Arkansas MPS

The DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop is an historic railroad maintenance shop in De Queen, Arkansas. It is located on the northwest corner of the railyard of the De Queen and Eastern Railroad, near the corner of South Hughes Street and East Lockesburg Avenue. It is a tall and long single-story brick structure, with a monitor roof and modest Italianate styling. Built c. 1905, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings built by this particular railroad company, and is the only known period railroad shop building in the region.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop Wikipedia