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Two Buttes Gymnasium

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NRHP Reference #
  
09001119

Architectural style
  
WPA Rustic

Area
  
6,900 m²

Added to NRHP
  
22 December 2009

Two Buttes Gymnasium

Location
  
5th and C Sts., Two Buttes, Colorado

MPS
  
New Deal Resources on Colorado's Eastern Plains MPS

Built by
  
Works Progress Administration

The Two Buttes Gymnasium is an ashlar sandstone-walled 60-by-130-foot (18 m × 40 m) single-story gym building located at 5th and C Sts. in Two Buttes, Colorado. It was built during 1935–37 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in style that has been termed WPA Rustic architecture.

The building has served as a sports facility and as a meeting hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Its construction employed 36 persons, and used stone from eight separate local quarries.

References

Two Buttes Gymnasium Wikipedia