Can You Identify These Downtown Landmarks?

Are you an expert at all things Texarkana? If you think you are, then go through these photos of some very famous landmarks and see if you can identify them. Don't scroll down. All the correct answers are below the photos.

1. Photographer's Island. Photographer's island is a popular location where visitors can straddle the state line between Arkansas and Texas. It is the only post office that occupies two states. It was built in 1932.

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2. Perot Theater. The Perot Theater is named for Ross Perot and was know as the Saenger Theater when it opened in 1924.

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3. Offenhauser Building. The Offenhauser Building is home to the Texarkana Museum of Regional History.

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4. McCartneyy Hotel. The hotel was named after one of Texarkana’s most prominent citizens, W.A. McCartney, Sr and appeared in 1970's movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

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5. Buhrman Pharr Hardware. The hardware company that was created in 1880s moved into the twin 4-story building in 1914. The building is now home to loft apartments.

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6.James Bowie Statue in Front of Old Library. The statue was erected in 1936 as part of the Texas Centennial celebration.

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7. Ace Of Clubs House. This Victorian home was built in 1885 in the shape of an Ace of Clubs. In 1894, Henry Moore, a Texarkana attorney, bought the house.

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8. Arkansas Courthouse. The federal government helped fund the project through the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. E. C. Seibert, a Texarkana architect from the firm of Witt, Seibert and Halsey was chosen as the project architect and Manhattan Construction was hired built the courthouse in 1937.

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9. Municipal building. Built in 1927-1930, there was no theater, concert stage, or audience space for 1,000 people in the city. While Texarkana has always been a twin city in both Texas and Arkansas, the Municipal Building served the entire community population in the twin cities for performing arts and a gathering place for civic functions. Texarkana was a popular stop-over for young performers, such as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Jimmie Ed Maxim Brown, George Jones, Floyd Cramer, Johnny Horton and Roy Orbison and of course Elvis Presley.