Wiley Rock Schoolhouse | |
Location | 603 Main St., Wiley, Colorado |
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Coordinates | 38°09′24″N102°43′11″W / 38.15667°N 102.71972°W Coordinates: 38°09′24″N102°43′11″W / 38.15667°N 102.71972°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built by | Works Progress Administration |
Architectural style | Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements |
NRHP reference # | 04000057 [1] |
Added to NRHP | February 20, 2004 |
The Wiley Rock Schoolhouse, at 603 Main St. in Wiley, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]
Wiley is a Statutory Town in Prowers County, Colorado, United States. The population was 405 at the 2010 Census.
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.
It was built in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project. [2]
The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, voluntary, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was established on May 6, 1935, by Executive Order 7034. In a much smaller project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. The four projects dedicated to these were: the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of great importance for American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout America, and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.
It served as an annex to the high school and included space for agriculture classes, for a blacksmith shop, and a music room. [2]
It is 70 by 70 feet (21 m × 21 m) in plan, and was built of heavy gray rock reclaimed from two buildings that the school purchased for the purpose. [2]
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