Big Horn Academy - Cowley, WY
Posted by: T0SHEA
N 44° 52.940 W 108° 28.119
12T E 699917 N 4972996
A school until 1983, this striking sandstone building was first the Big Horn Academy, later the Cowley High School, still later the administration building of Big Horn County School District #1.
Waymark Code: WMWV1F
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 10/14/2017
Views: 1
We believe the "Then" photo here to have been taken in the early to mid '40s, as much as a decade after the accompanying gymnasium was built. Both "Then" and "Now" photos were taken from the lawn southeast of the building, looking northwest.
While the Big Horn Academy was established in 1907 with the construction in Cowley of a stone schoolhouse, the present stone building wasn't constructed until 1916, at a cost of $40,000, replacing that original building. The academy was essentially dissolved in 1924 when the school was transferred to School District No. 28, thereafter to be known as the Cowley High School. The large log building beside the stone schoolhouse was a WPA project built for $10,000 in 1936 as a gymnasium for the school. Since its construction, however, the building has served the community as a community hall as well as a gymnasium.
Today the sandstone schoolhouse is used as an administration building by the Big Horn County School District #1 and is owned by the town of Cowley.
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Big Horn Academy - circa 1945 >> 2017 |
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Big Horn Academy - 2017 >> circa 1945 |
Year photo was taken: ca 1945
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