Hanksville Meetinghouse-School

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Hanksville Meetinghouse-School
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LocationSawmill Basin Rd., Hanksville, Utah
Coordinates 38°22′21″N110°42′51″W / 38.37250°N 110.71417°W / 38.37250; -110.71417 Coordinates: 38°22′21″N110°42′51″W / 38.37250°N 110.71417°W / 38.37250; -110.71417
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1911-c.1914
Built byFrank J. Weber
Architectural styleVernacular Mormon church
MPS Mormon Church Buildings in Utah MPS
NRHP reference # 90001825 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 18, 1990

The Hanksville Meetinghouse-School, on Sawmill Basin Rd. in Hanksville, Utah, was built starting around 1911 and completing around 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]

Hanksville, Utah Town in Utah, United States

Hanksville is a small town in Wayne County, Utah, United States, at the junction of State Routes 24 and 95. The population was 219 at the 2010 census.

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 in preserving the property.

Built to serve as a Latter-day Saint church building and school, it replaced a c.1888 log church and a c.1890 log school. It was built by Frank J. Weber, who operated a hotel and livery stable business. [2]

It is a vernacular one-story stone building with a gable roof, built upon a stone foundation. Its exterior walls are random ashlar, made of local sandstone. Two exterior chimneys were added later, perhaps in the 1950s. [2]

Sandstone A clastic sedimentary rock composed mostly of sand-sized particles

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized mineral particles or rock fragments.

It also served as a civic center/town hall, as well as the only school in Hanksville for a while. A new stone school was built next door in 1920, and the meetinghouse continued to serve as a church until a chapel was built elsewhere in the town in 1967. [2]

It is one of only 20 "first period" Mormon meetinghouses surviving, and one of only three of those that had multiple functions/purposes and have not been greatly altered since. [2]

It is located at 100 S. Center St.?

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Nancy Ekker; Roger Roper (September 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hanksville Meetinghouse/School". National Park Service . Retrieved October 9, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1990