Alpine Elementary School
a.k.a. Alpine LDS Ward Chapel
11 and 12 Co. Rd. 2052, near jct. with US 180, Alpine, AZThe Alpine Elementary School is a complex of buildings consisting of: a two-room schoolhouse built in 1930; a Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS/Mormon) church built in 1938-1939 and used as the public school's multi-purpose building and gymnasium since 1987; and two prefabricated modules that house offices, a learning laboratory, and a library. The two-room schoolhouse is a one-story, side-gabled, red limestone building with white limestone quoins and a sheet metal roof. The former church is a one-and-a-half-story, cross-gabled, white limestone structure with a composition shingle roof. The schoolhouse and former LDS church both possess good integrity and contribute to the historic character of the Alpine Elementary School. The two prefabricated modules do not contribute to the historic character of the property because of their modern dates of construction (C1976-1979).
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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