- City:
- Thermopolis, WY
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Designer:
- Goodrich & Krusmark
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The old Thermopolis City School was constructed during the 1930s with the assistance of funding from the federal Public Works Administration (PWA Docket No. WY 1058-DS). The school was located on Springview Street, between Big Horn and Mondell streets, and faced west. An auditorium/gymnasium extended eastward. Were it still standing, the building would occupy the space that is currently between the Hot Springs County School District and the Ralph Witters School.
A new high school was constructed around the corner during the late 1950s (along Park St.); an even newer high school is located a few hundred feet further down the road.
Both the PWA and 1950s high school have since been demolished. The architects of the PWA school were Goodrich & Krusmark of Casper.
Source notes
Google Earth archival satellite imagery.
https://www.thermopolis.org/
Photo taken by Frank I. Jones. National Archives Record Group 135-SAR:
Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President:
“Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”;
Box 23; Wyoming; Folder 1: Schools.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2014.
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