Interior Fruita Schoolhouse
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Interior Fruita Schoolhouse
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Visitors may peer through the windows into the furnished structure and imagine what school was like, so long ago.
Classes had been conducted for two years before the Fruita Schoolhouse was built, when Elijah Cutler Behunin donated land for a school building in 1896. He and other early Junction (later called "Fruita") settlers constructed the building. Even though only eight families lived in Junction, these farmers had large families.
Originally, there was a flat, dirt covered roof on the school. A peaked, shingled roof was added in 1912 or 1913. The interior walls, originally bare and chinked logs, were plastered in 1935.
In 1964, the National Park Service nominated the school to the National Register of Historic Places and subsequently restored the structure to the 1930s period. Today, the school stands in its original location, although Utah Highway 24 was added in 1962.
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November 14th, 2019
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