- Paonia High School (former) - Paonia COThe Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant that covered about half the cost of building a new high school in Paonia CO in 1938-39. The school closed when a new high school was constructed in the neighboring town of Hotchkiss to serve Paonia and surrounding small towns in Delta County. The old high school building is two-stories, with a set-back second story, clad in sand/buff brick. The style is stripped-down Moderne, with the only decoration a horizontal banding at the upper window line and abstract bas-relief over what was presumably the original entrance. The crummy roof-line trim is from a...