The former Columbia County Jail has been named one of seven locations on Preserve Arkansas’ list of 2026’s Most Endangered Places in Arkansas.
The list also includes a Folk Victorian-style hotel in Poinsett County, churches at Little Rock and Clarksville, a Civilian Conservation Corps-built complex in Hot Springs, the Leachville Cotton Belt Depot, and a prominent Victorian home at Pine Bluff.
The Columbia County Jail, 200 W. Calhoun, designed ca. 1920 in Renaissance Revivial style by the Little Rock architectural firm of Charles L. Thompson and Thomas Harding, Jr., has details that mirror the Columbia County Courthouse one block away…