Utah State University Eastern: Administration Building (demolished) – Price UT

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The PWA built the three original buildings of Carbon Junior College, now Utah State University Eastern, from 1937-38. In 2015, the last of these original buildings was demolished. From “A Look Back at the Old SAC”:

“Carbon College, created as a four-year junior college, would house four grades: junior and senior years of high school and freshman and sophomore years of college. This arrangement constituted a new educational concept drafted for junior colleges in the United States.

The 27-room, main classroom building included academic studies, agricultural, business and cosmetology. ‘Cosmetology, the latter course to be somewhat of an innovation in the Utah State Educational System,’ according to a March 18, 1937, article in the Sun Advocate. The vocational shop included mining machinery and a number of subjects based on this county’s chief industry…,” according to the same article in the Sun Advocate.

By September 1937, Cannon and Fitzer architects were designing the $272,000 campus. The state contributed $150,591 and the Public Works Administration $123,211.”