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Cortez School Administration Building

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1930s, WPA?. 121 E. 1st St.
  • (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

One of the few handsome, unaltered edifices in town is sheathed in rusticated local sandstone trimmed in the same stone. A grand, round-arched entry and stepped parapet are among the most appealing of several discreet details. Originally a school, it is now the administrative headquarters of the school district.

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Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Cortez School Administration Building", [Cortez, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-MT05.

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Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 595-595.

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