- City:
- Mt. Pleasant, UT
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Auditoriums and Arenas, Armories
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Designer:
- Niels P. Larsen
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Utah National Guard was funded by the New Deal to built several armories. One of those is in Mount Pleasant. The exact year of construction is unknown to us..
“During the 1930s, UTNG used federal money, often supplied through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to build or expand a number of UTNG facilities. The WPA funded eight armories and several garage and storage areas for the UTNG. By 1940, 13 armories were in use by the Utah Guard including [Mt. Pleasant].
The building is now utilized by the city of Mt. Pleasant as its Recreation Center, a.k.a. Memorial Hall.
Source notes
https://www.ut.ngb.army.mil/environ/Cultural_Resources/HSMT/HISTORY/Armory%20histories.doc
Mount Pleasant National Guard Armory report of the Utah State Historical Society Historic Preservation Research Office, 1986
https://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp/GetAsset?assetID=736f95c0-fbdf-4c15-8876-54e01c4ca73c
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 24, 2016.
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