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Architects: Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
- Area: 12000 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Timothy Hursley
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Manufacturers: Sherwin-Williams, 3form, Acme Brick, Armstrong Flooring, Atas International, Isokern, Kawneer, McBride Stone Company, McNichols, PPG IdeaScapes, Shaw
Text description provided by the architects. A modern Visitor Center serves as a window on the past, celebrating a historically significant port town, while lifting visitors above a levee to reunite river and town, past and present. Situated at the confluence of Arkansas' White and Black Rivers, Jacksonport was a thriving 1800’s port town serving steamboats that held up to 200 passengers. It’s a place of contradiction geographically and historically, where the Mississippi Delta meets the mountains. Because of its accessibility to the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, Jacksonport was a Civil War strategic stronghold, being held five different times by Union and Confederate forces and serving as each general’s headquarters.
