Fayette City Park Swimming Pool

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Fayette City Park Swimming Pool
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Location Memorial Park
Fayette, Missouri
Coordinates 39°9′7″N92°41′42″W / 39.15194°N 92.69500°W / 39.15194; -92.69500 Coordinates: 39°9′7″N92°41′42″W / 39.15194°N 92.69500°W / 39.15194; -92.69500
Area less than one acre
Built 1936 (1936)
Architect Bintz, Wesley; Sheets, M.A.
Architectural style Art Deco
NRHP reference # 99000457 [1]
Added to NRHP April 15, 1999

Fayette City Park Swimming Pool, also known as the Fayette WPA Pool and WWI Memorial, is a historic swimming pool located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration funded project. The pool building is a roughly egg shaped, one-story Art Deco structure with a rectangular two-story entrance hall on the north. The building has two-toned brick walls and a concrete foundation. [2] :5 [3]

Swimming pool Artificial container filled with water intended for swimming

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground or built above ground, and are also a common feature aboard ocean-liners and cruise ships. In-ground pools are most commonly constructed from materials such as concrete, natural stone, metal, plastic or fiberglass, and can be of a custom size and shape or built to a standardized size, the largest of which is the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Fayette, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Fayette is a city in Howard County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,688 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Howard County. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Howard County, Missouri County in the United States

Howard County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri, with its southern border formed by the Missouri River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,144. Its county seat is Fayette. The county was organized January 23, 1816 and named for Benjamin Howard, the first Governor of the Missouri Territory. Settled originally by migrants from the Upper South, it is part of the region historically known as Little Dixie. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri metropolitan area.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

The Fayette City Park Swimming Pool is one of several above-ground swimming pools designed by architect Wesley Bintz between 1919 and the 1950s. Headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, Bintz patented his iconic "Bintz Pool," which boasted efficiency and cost-effectiveness through the use of the "ovoid" shape and the above-ground design. While there were once about 135 "Bintz" swimming pools throughout the United States, today there are approximately 16 still standing, with even fewer still operating as swimming pools.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Debbie Sheals (February 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fayette City Park Swimming Pool" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 14 photographs from 1998)
  3. "Above ground pool". Friday, 5 October 2018