- City:
- Vernal, UT
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Central School in Vernal was built in 1940-41 with the help of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) (by then part of the Federal Works Administration), according to a plaque in the entrance lobby. An older Central School was torn down to make way for this building.
The design of the long, two-story building is brick Moderne, with strong horizontal lines and lovely curved section to the left of the entrance. There is a L-shaped wing on the south side. The windows and their openings have been radically altered (probably to deal with summer heat).
The building now has “Central Education Center” inscribed over the entrance, but it was are not certain that it is in active use. Google maps show it as a pre-school and closed.
Source notes
https://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500910.pdf
https://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/C00442/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 27, 2016.
Additional contributions by Joan Greer.
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