Antelope School (Antelope, Oregon)
- Title
- Antelope School (Antelope, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture
- Alternative
- Antelope Community Center (Antelope, Oregon)
- Photographer
- Jason, Allen
- Description
- The Antelope School is a significant representative of rural education in central Oregon during the first half of the twentieth century. A testament to the continued commitment to education of the residents of the town and vicinity, since its completion in 1925 it has been by far the most substantial building in Antelope, occupying the most prominent parcel in town, filling a wide variety of community roles. The school is the third built in Antelope, and was the central focus of education in the surrounding area for 60 years. The Antelope School stands out among other rural schools of its period because of its size and breadth of education offered (including primary through secondary until 1936), designed to meet the state requirements for Standard Schools at all grade levels through that time. Although after 1936 the Antelope School no longer provided instruction for all grade levels, it continued to provide instruction at the elementary and intermediate levels until 1983, when it was closed as a public school, an event that is associated with the Rajneesh movement’s establishment of political dominance of the town. From its construction in 1925 to the present, the school has been a focus of community activity, hosting school activities, community events, and locally produced plays. The school has also functioned as the local polling place and the seat of local government, concurrent with and subsequent to its role as a place of formal education. The Antelope School is also locally significant for its architecture as a unique example of a formal, concrete Classical Revival-style school building in this extremely rural setting where one and two-room, wooden schoolhouses are far more typical. Source: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
- View
- interior
- Temporal
- 1920-1929
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works halls, city community centers
- Latitude
- 44.913098
- Longitude
- -120.723844
- Location
- Antelope >> Wasco County >> Oregon >> United States Wasco County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 45500 McGreer Street
- Date
- 1925
- View Date
- 2014
- Identifier
- OR_WascoCounty_AntelopeSchool_0009
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
- Source
- National Register form prepared by David W. Moore, Jr./Project Director; Justin Edgington/Historian (with contributions by Jennifer Perunko, Historian, National Cemetery Administration)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Citation
- Oregon Historic Sites Database, http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/
- Note
- This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2016) National Register of Historic Places was prepared by Jason Allen and Baily Ring, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
