Piute High School (demolished) Addition - Circleville UT

City:: Circleville, UT
Site Type:: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agency:: Unknown
Designer:: Ashton & Evans
Quality of Information:: Minimal
Marked:: Unknown
Site Survival:: No Longer Extant

Description

The original structure (Circleville Elementary) dates to 1921 – 22 (Pope & Burton, architects). High school attendance in this very rural area grew dramatically during the 1920s due to a new state law requiring compulsory school attendance until age 18. Thus in 1926, high school students were moved to the Pope & Burton structure and it was renamed Piute High School.

In 1946 a WPA-funded addition was built for high school industrial arts and home economics as well as the Circleville town board office. The addition was to the right of the Pope & Burton structure, and comparatively large. The doors of this structure were shut in 1961 when a new Piute High School was built in Junction, UT.

Contributor note: The connection with WPA programs is less rigorous than I like, however photos of the addition were found in the Works Progress Administration photograph collection (see source below). Circleville was far from the beaten path from newspapers – and it is almost a ghost town today – so further facts were hard to come by.

Source notes

Town of Circleville Utah. (2019, Aug 20). Circleville Fun Facts #22. Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/TownOfCirclevilleUtah/photos/pb.100078979789388.-2207520000./2385497431662162/?type=3

Works Progress Administration photograph collection (P0169) [Loose labeled photos]. Works Progress Administration. 1933?-1942. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.

Blueprints from:
Special Collections, Ashton & Evans collection [unprocessed blueprints]. J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah

Site originally submitted by Corrinne Fiedler on March 15, 2023.