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Show NPS Form 10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 7 Page 1 Park City High School Mechanical Arts Building, Park City, Summit County, UT Narrative Description The Park City High School Mechanical Arts Building was constructed in 1935-36 in the PWA Moderne style. This building is situated next to the Park City High School (designed by architects Scott and Welch, 1928) on a corner lot. The one-story brick building has a low-pitched gabled roof with a surrounding parapet wall. The walls have been broken up into vertical panels by low relief pilasters. The stylized geometric capitals on these pilasters are made of concrete and project upward through the coping at the edge of the roof, giving the building a crenelated appearance. The front facade is divided into three bays. Each bay is then divided into three sections by narrower brick pilasters also adorned with concrete capitals. A garage door is located in the north end of the front (east) elevation. The north and south elevations consist of four bays. Steel sash multi-light hopper windows exist throughout the building. The building has a rectangular plan and there are no major extensions or additions. It encompasses roughly 4500 square feet within a free-span steel and wood structure that rises to 20 feet at the ceiling's peak. When first built it had a mezzanine in the back quarter of the structure. The area under the mezzanine was used for storage, bathrooms, and offices. The remainder of the space was open. Roughly half of the remaining floor area had a hardwood floor with the remainder of exposed concrete. Structural upgrades, masonry repair, window reglazing, and other suitable changes are currently being made to the building. A historic bus garage located directly to the south of the building was a one-story rectangular building with little ornamentation and multi-light garage doors. It was demolished (1996). The Park City High School Mechanical Arts building retains its original integrity and contributes to the historic qualities of Park City. See continuation sheet |
