The Wheel Store (Batesville, Arkansas)

 meeting house, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, general store, commercial building, vernacular (architecture)

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Historic commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Built: 1887
Architectural style: Vernacular
Material: ashlar-faced sandstone
Areas of significance: Agriculture; Economics; Politics/Government; Social History
Area: less than 1 acre
Also known as: Batesville Help and Hope
Date added to NRHP: 12/8/1988
Notes: This commercial building was originally constructed as a combination co-op general store and meeting hall for The Agricultural Wheel, which was an agrarian reform organization. This group's main interest was in improving the condition of the average farmer, sharecropper and lower-class agricultural laborer in the post-Reconstruction South.

Additional information about The Agricultural Wheel here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Wheel