Cotter water tower

The Cotter water tower is a historic elevated steel water tower located in Cotter, Arkansas. It was constructed in 1935 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company, as part of the development of the local water supply system by the Public Works Administration. The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, as part of a multiple-property listing that included numerous other PWA-era projects in Arkansas, under the heading “An Ambition to Be Preferred: New Deal Recovery Efforts and Architecture in Arkansas, 1933-1943.”[2]

Cotter water tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Location	NE of jct. of NE US 62B and State St., Cotter, Arkansas
Coordinates	36°16′34″N 92°31′46″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1935
Built by	Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company
MPS	New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	06001280[1]
Added to NRHP	January 24, 2007

See also

• Cotton Plant water tower
• Hampton Waterworks
• Mineral Springs Waterworks
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Baxter County, Arkansas
• Waldo Water Tower (Waldo, Arkansas)

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Cotter Water Tower

External links

• An Ambition to be Preferred: New Deal Recovery Efforts and Architecture in Arkansas, 1933-1943, By Holly Hope