Crestone School
It is a one-story two-classroom front-gabled building. It is unusual among historic schools of Colorado in its length: it is 88 feet (27 m) long, with seven bays on each side. The front, original section, built in the 1880s is 38 by 20 feet (11.6 m × 6.1 m) in plan; the rear section was built in 1901 and includes a room which became a kitchen.
The school's bell is a contributing object in the listing. It was cast by C.B. Bell Company of Hillsboro, Ohio in 1912. It hung in a wooden tower which eventually deteriorated. The bell was placed, in 1976, upon a pyramid of "Crestone Conglomerate Rock" as part of Crestone's Centennial Celebration.
A small/shed-roof woodshed at the north rear of the building and was built before 1935; it and two c. 1910 frame outhouses were deemed contributing buildings in the listing.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Barbara Norgren; George Harlan (June 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Crestone School / Creststone Community Building". National Park Service. Retrieved January 9, 2020. With accompanying six photos from 1984-85