ANCRC Grant to Help ATU Upgrade Caraway Hall – Arkansas Tech University

Arkansas Tech College will carry out exterior renovations to Caraway Residence Corridor with the help of an $857,492 grant from the Arkansas Pure and Cultural Sources Council (ANCRC).

The ANCRC funds will enable ATU to switch roof decking and tiles at Caraway Corridor. ATU is committing matching funds within the quantity of $218,730 to fund the restore and alternative of doorways and home windows.

“Arkansas Tech College is grateful to the ANCRC for its continued partnership in preserving historic buildings on our Russellville campus,” mentioned Dr. Robin E. Bowen, ATU president. “This grant will assist be certain that certainly one of ATU’s most seen buildings will keep its magnificence and performance right into a second century of service.”

Caraway Corridor opened in March 1935. Federal grant funding from the Public Works Administration helped make the colonial fashion construction attainable. The constructing was named in reminiscence of the late Sen. Thaddeus H. Caraway and devoted in October 1935. Caraway’s widow, Sen. Hattie W. Caraway, spoke on the dedication.

Caraway Corridor was named to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations on Sept. 10, 1992. In the present day, it serves as sorority housing for 88 ATU college students every semester.

Based on its Website, the ANCRC was established by the Arkansas Legislature in 1987 by Arkansas Act 729 (now codified as Arkansas Code Annotated 15-12-101 by way of 15-12-103). The act created the ANCRC to handle and supervise a grants and belief fund for the acquisition, administration and stewardship of state-owned properties acquired or used for ANCRC authorized functions.

The grants are funded by way of state’s actual property switch tax. The ANCRC consists of 11 voting members. Grants from this fund are for tasks that defend and keep state-owned pure areas, historic websites and outside recreation.