- City:
- Brigham City, UT
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Gymnasiums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Designer:
- Joseph Nelson architectural firm
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
Description
“In Brigham City, the PWA sponsored another public building, the Box Elder High School Gymnasium. This was a more ambitious project, one of twenty Utah school gymnasiums built during the 1930s. Of red brick, the building cost $106,000. Its construction provided work not just for Brigham City laborers but for the Joseph Nelson architectural firm, an Idaho general contractor, a city building inspector, a Utah plumbing/heating/ventilating contractor, and a roofing/sheet metal specialist.
The design, acceptable for the time, provided for two gyms: a 7,000-square-foot boys’ gym with seating for 1,000 and a girls’ gym one-fourth that size. There was also a tiled swimming pool, locker rooms, classrooms, and a handball court.”
Source notes
New Deal Agencies Built 233 Buildings in Utah:(https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/from_war_to_war/newdealagenciesbuilt233buildingsinutah.html), accessed February 1, 2018.
Brigham City History (https://www.brighamcityhistory.org/index.php?title=Box_Elder_High_School&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile), accessed February 1, 2018.
National Archives Record Group 135-SAR
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on April 22, 2014.
Additional contributions by Brent McKee, February 1, 2018.
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