Aggie Workshop

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Aggie Workshop | nrhp_type = | image = Aggie_Workshop.JPG | caption = | location = AR 235 Spur, Bruno, Arkansas | coordinates = {{coord|36|8|32|N|92|46|51|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Arkansas#USA | map_caption = Location in Arkansas##Location in United States | builder = Smith-Hughes Aggie Boys | architecture = Bungalow/craftsman, plain traditional | added = September 4, 1992 | area = {{convert|2.3|acre}} | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500028|title=Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS}} | refnum = 92001113<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Aggie Workshop''' is a historic former school building on Marion County Road 5010 in Bruno, Arkansas. It is a single-story L-shaped structure, built out of local stone and topped by a hip roof with Craftsman-style exposed rafter tails. The WPA-approved building was built in 1935 by the Lincoln Aggie Club and was used as a vocational stone and cement workshop, as part of the local Bruno Agricultural School. A cement swimming pool, contemporaneous to the building's construction, is located in the crook of the L.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/MR0019-pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904200303/https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/MR0019-pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2017-09-04 |title=NRHP nomination for Aggie Workshop |publisher=Arkansas Preservation |accessdate=2015-01-19 }}</ref>

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992,<ref name="nris"/> at which time it was used for storage.<ref name=NRHP/> It is located just north of Aggie Hall.

== Lincoln Aggie Club == The Lincoln Aggie Club was organized in 1923<ref>{{cite news|title=Third annual father and son banquet of the Smith-Hughes School|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13552640/lincoln_aggie_club/|accessdate=September 4, 2017|work=The Mountain Echo|date=February 11, 1926|location=Yellville, Arkansas|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}{{free access}}</ref> by a local teacher. It later became a chapter of the Future Farmers of America, the oldest chapter in Arkansas and one of the oldest in the nation (Arkansas was the second state to get an FFA charter, after Virginia.).<ref>{{cite web|author1=J. C. Atherton|title=Long ago in Arkansas|url=https://archives.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/2450/5492/FFANationalFutureFarmer_02_2_Winter1954.pdf?sequence=2|website=archives.iupui.edu|accessdate=September 4, 2017|page=20|date=1954}}</ref> The members of the club built a workshop, Aggie Hall (a community recreation center), and Aggie Workshop.

==See also== * Aggie Hall: 1926 Bruno Agricultural School gymnasium * Bruno School Building: 1920 Bruno Agricultura School main building * Hirst-Mathew Hall: 1929 Bruno Agricultural School classrooms * National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Arkansas

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Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Category:National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Arkansas Category:Education in Marion County, Arkansas Category:1935 establishments in Arkansas Category:School buildings completed in 1935 Category:Works Progress Administration in Arkansas Category:Vocational education in the United States Category:Bungalow architecture in Arkansas Category:American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas Category:National FFA Organization