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Show Cv e5G~£:\~, \ q?tQ - \q'?j National Register of Historic Places historic name Crescent Elementary other names/site number_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Location street & number_1......1.... 02"..O:....::S...o...,ut...... h.".S...,ta""'te:....::S""'tr""'ee=:..!.t_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ city or town _ _....l:S~a~nd~y':_:::-----:-----=---::-:---:--------------:---:---:--:-=-:: state Utah code UT county_--'S...,a""lt"""L.... ak.."e"--_______ zip code 84070 Cv-e5'~ h~~ ~~4 s~~ . ~ -~ Property Owner name Jordan School District telephone (801) 565-7100 street & number 9361 South 300 East city or town -'S=a=nd"""v'--_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ state....!1L zip code 84070- Narrative Statement of Significance The Crescent Elementary School, built in 1930, is a significant example of the educational architecture of Utah in the first half of the twentieth century. The school building is being nominated under Criterion A of the multiple property nomination, Historic Resources of Sandy, the Specialized Agriculture, Small Business, and Community Development Period (1906-1946). The 1930 Crescent Elementary School represents a rural community's effort to meet the needs of its school-age children. The school was designed to provide a wholesome educational environment, and to keep the children of Crescent from being split-up and sent to remote schools. The building had several "modern" amenities and was used as a community center by the residents of Crescent and Sandy. The building is well-preserved and retains its historic integrity. HISTORY OF CRESCENT AND THE CRESCENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Although now simply a part of the Sandy suburban sprawl, the community of Crescent originally had a distinct identity. The unofficial boundaries of Crescent were 9800 South to 11800 South on the north and the south, and the Wasatch mountains and the Jordan River on the east and the west. Physically Crescent is eighteen miles from Salt Lake City and has been almost completely been annexed to Sandy City . . In the 1860s, a few homesteaders began to farm the area. The community of isolated farm holds did not have a name until 1896 when the population was sufficiently large enough to organize a ward of the LOS (Latter-day Saint or Mormon) Church. The name Crescent was given to the ward by the congregation .1 The history of Crescent somewhat parallels the development of Sandy, at least as an agricultural community. However, because the area was not tied to the mining industry, the region never developed a downtown commercial district. 1Grace Brown Johnson, "A History of the Town of Crescent and It's [sic] Early Settlers", Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, n.d., n.p.), 5. Crescent Elementary Page 1 |
