Elmer A. Stuck

The Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, designed by Stuck and completed in 1934. The Community Center No. 1 in Jonesboro, designed by Stuck and completed in 1936. The Jacob Trieber Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court House in Helena, designed by associated architects Edward F. Brueggeman and Elmer A. Stuck & Associates and completed in 1961. The former Twin Towers dormitories of Arkansas State University, designed by Stuck, Frier, Lane & Scott and completed in 1967. Demolished in 2008. The Cross County Courthouse in Wynne, designed by Stuck, Frier, Lane & Scott and completed in 1969. Irby Hall of the University of Central Arkansas, designed by The Stuck Associates and completed in 1993. Elmer A. Stuck (February 2, 1900 – July 11, 1978) was an American architect in practice in Jonesboro, Arkansas from 1926 until his death in 1978. Stuck and his partners developed the leading architectural practice in the Arkansas Delta and were responsible for major projects throughout the state, including the Medical Arts Building in Hot Springs, the federal building in Helena, three county courthouses and much of the campus of Arkansas State University.

Life and career Elmer Axtell Stuck was born February 2, 1900 in Jonesboro to Elmer C. Stuck and Bessie M. Stuck, née Axtell. He was educated at Washington and Lee University and at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating from the latter in 1924 with a BArch. He worked for LaBeaume & Klein in St. Louis until 1926, when he returned to Jonesboro to open his own office. From 1928 to 1931 he worked in partnership with John Parks Almand, with whom he designed the Medical Arts Building (1930) in Hot Springs, which was the tallest building in Arkansas until 1960. He then worked independently until 1949, when he reorganized his firm as Elmer A. Stuck & Associates. In 1961 he elevated three associates, Sid Frier, William H. Lane and Aubrey E. Scott Jr., to partners, and the firm was renamed Stuck, Frier, Lane & Scott. In the 1960s the firm was responsible for a major expansion of the Arkansas State University campus. In 1971 the firm was renamed Stuck Frier Lane Scott Beisner to include Dewaine Beisner. About this time a second office was opened in Little Rock, under Frier's management. Stuck was head of the firm until his death.

Stuck was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and for many years sat on the State Board of Architects. Frier died in 1985 and Scott retired in 1991. In 1996 and 2004 the firm was led by Beisner in Jonesboro and by Gene Castin in Little Rock. By the latter year, the firm had been renamed Stuck Associates Architects. The firm went out of business in 2019. 1936 – Community Center No. 1, 1212 S Church St, Jonesboro, Arkansas

Almand & Stuck, 1928–1931 1930 – Medical Arts Building, 236 Central Ave, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Elmer A. Stuck & Associates, 1949–1961 1958 – Jonesboro City Hall (former), 314 W Washington Ave, Jonesboro, Arkansas

Stuck, Frier, Lane & Scott, 1961–1971 1962 – Nettleton Church of Christ, 3521 East Highland Dr, Jonesboro, Arkansas 1964 – Craighead County Library, 315 W Oak Ave, Jonesboro, Arkansas 1965 – Administration Building, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas 1967 – Sharp County Courthouse, 718 Ash Flat Dr, Ash Flat, Arkansas 1967 – Twin Towers, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas 1969 – Terminal, Jonesboro Municipal Airport, Jonesboro, Arkansas 1982 – Mid-America Science Museum, 500 Mid America Blvd, Hot Springs, Arkansas 1984 – John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, 4300 W 7th St, Little Rock, Arkansas

Stuck Associates, from 1983 1993 – Irby Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas 2006 – Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, 117 N Main St, Tyronza, Arkansas