El Dorado Springs School and Gymnasium – El Dorado Springs MO

Description

The El Dorado Springs “old” Gymnasium and a series of classrooms were completed in 1939 as a project of the Federal Works Agency of the Public Works Administration in 1939. The gym and attached classroom building is a red brick structure designed to harmonize with the old high school (destroyed by fire). The gym features a full stage complete with a second story property room and “crow’s nest”, as well as downstairs locker rooms. The lower walls of the gym and hallways are covered with pumpkin-colored oblong tiles, with plaster to the ceiling.

Following several decades of few to no substantive changes to the space, the school district has replaced the ceiling tiles in the gym area, as well as sealing off the original clerestory windows on the west wall and climate controlling the space.

The classrooms and gym are now a part of the current middle school section of the K-12 complex that was built around the 1939 structure in the 1950’s and 60’s.