Pugh's Mill Memorial Park - North Little Rock, Arkansas
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BruceS
N 34° 47.467 W 092° 14.967
15S E 568663 N 3850135
Park with eleven sculptures making up an old water mill setting.
Waymark Code: WMCB4D
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 08/17/2011
Views: 4
The sculptures are constructed with reinforced concrete covered with cement modeled in a faux bois(or fake wood) style. The sculptures include the mill itself, water pump, rain barrel and a couple rustic bridges.
From Smithsonian site:
"Pugh's Mill Memorial Park, or T. R. Pugh Memorial Park, was commissioned by North Little Rock developer Justin Matthews of Justin Matthews Company, and is commonly known as "Old Mill." It was conceived and constructed by Matthews and his company to be a focal point of his then-new residential subdivisions. The park was to serve as a tribute to early Arkansas pioneers, specifically Thomas Robert Pugh, a noted plantation owner and settler of Ashley County. The mill house was designed by Frank Carmean, architect of the Justin Matthews Company, who chose the site. The narrow bridge below the mill pond is made of two bent swamp persimmon trees joined together. The footbridge near the mill house is a twisted black locust tree. The park was featured in the opening credits of the 1939 motion picture Gone With The Wind, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. IAS files contain the 1986 nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places for the Arkansas sculptures of Dionicio Rodriguez, which includes the park sculptures."
TITLE: Pugh's Mill Memorial Park
ARTIST(S): Dionicio Rodriguez
DATE: 1933
MEDIUM: Colored cement over reinforced concrete, and stone.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS AR000226
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
T. R. Pugh Memorial Park
Head of Lake #3 of Lakewood Subdivision, bounded by Lakeshore Drive & Fairway Avenue
North Little Rock, Arkansas
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
None noted
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