West Memphis City Hall

The former West Memphis City Hall is a historic municipal building at 100 Court Street in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. It is a brick building, whose original 1938 construction consisted of two two-story sections joined by a single-story connector. The front portion of the building housed city offices, while the rear portion housed the fire station and the jail.

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It was built in 1938 with funding from the Public Works Administration, a Depression-era jobs program. The building was extended to include a courtroom annex in 1944–45, and an enlarged jail annex was added in 1960–61. It no longer houses town offices (which are at 205 South Redding Street); it now houses a police dispatch center and the municipal court. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.