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Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
03001197

Added to NRHP
  
21 November 2003

Built
  
1903

Opened
  
1903

Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School

Location
  
Built by
  
Office of Indian Affairs

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

The Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School, which has also been known as the Truxton Canyon Indian School and as the Valentine Indian School, is a historic schoolhouse that was built in 1903. It was built using Colonial Revival architecture as a work of the Office of Indian Affairs, and was expanded, compatibly with the Colonial Revival style, in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

It was deemed significant for its role in "educating predominantly Hualapai but also Apache, Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Tohono O'odham (Papago), Pima, and Yavapai children during the early twentieth century", and also "as an expression of Office of Indian Affairs architecture during the 'Assimilation Policy' era, when boarding school buildings in Euroamerican styles were designed to educate Indian children in environments entirely foreign from their own. The architecture expressed the intent on the part of the federal government to separate a student from his or her family and culture and to provide basic skills for earning a living away from the reservation."

The school operated from 1903 until 1937. At the time of its NRHP nomination it was owned by the Hualapi Indian nation, which had plans to renovate the building.

References

Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School Wikipedia


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