Hanksville Meetinghouse-School

The Hanksville Meetinghouse-School, on Sawmill Basin Rd. in Hanksville, Utah, was built starting around 1911 and completing around 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

Hanksville Meetinghouse-School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Sawmill Basin Rd., Hanksville, Utah
Coordinates	38°22′21″N 110°42′51″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c.1911-c.1914
Built by	Frank J. Weber
Architectural style	Vernacular Mormon church
MPS	Mormon Church Buildings in Utah MPS
NRHP reference No.	90001825[1]
Added to NRHP	December 18, 1990

Built to serve as a Latter-day Saint church building and school, it replaced a c.1888 log church and a c.1890 log school. It was built by Frank J. Weber, who operated a hotel and livery stable business.[2]

It is a vernacular one-story stone building with a gable roof, built upon a stone foundation. Its exterior walls are random ashlar, made of local sandstone. Two exterior chimneys were added later, perhaps in the 1950s.[2]

It also served as a civic center/town hall, as well as the only school in Hanksville for a while. A new stone school was built next door in 1920, and the meetinghouse continued to serve as a church until a chapel was built elsewhere in the town in 1967.[2]

It is one of only 20 "first period" Mormon meetinghouses surviving, and one of only three of those that had multiple functions/purposes and have not been greatly altered since.[2]

It is located at 100 S. Center St.?

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Nancy Ekker; Roger Roper (September 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hanksville Meetinghouse/School". National Park Service. Retrieved October 9, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1990