1940’s – First Baptist Church

1940’s – First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church in Newport was organized in 1892 and the sanctuary pictured here, which is still in use, was built in 1946. ( Courtesy of Jane Parnell.)
1909 – Wolff Goldman Department Store

1909 – Wolff Goldman Department Store

The employees of the Wolff Goldman department store pose outside their newly renovated and expanded operation in 1909.  Arkansas’s leading architect, Charles L. Thompson, designed the new building at the corner of Hazel and Front Streets.  Sigmund Wolff and...
1890’s – Auvergne Depot

1890’s – Auvergne Depot

the Batesville and Brinkley depot at Auvergne was built in 1884 but blew away in the tornado of 1892.  The tracks of the B&B which were laid from Brinkley north, reached Newport around 1890.  Because of opposition from the Iron Mountain Railway, the B&B never...