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Richard L. Kitchens Post No. 41

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Log cabin

Opened
  
1922

Built
  
1922 (1922)

NRHP Reference #
  
76000444

Added to NRHP
  
30 September 1976

Richard L. Kitchens Post No. 41

Location
  
409 Porter St., Helena, Arkansas

The Richard L. Kitchens Post No. 41 is a historic American Legion hall at 409 Porter Street in Helena, Arkansas. Built in 1922 to a design by a local Legionnaire, this Rustic log structure is supposedly the first American Legion hall to be referred to as a "hut", and is the oldest Legion building in the city. Its main block is built of donated materials, including the cypress logs forming its walls, and built by volunteer labor supervised by a local contractor and Legionnaire. A frame addition was added to the rear of the building in 1949 (for which the gable roof was extended), as were two shed-roof additions.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

Richard L. Kitchens Post No. 41 Wikipedia