Dexter Gymnasium

United States historic place


Dexter Gymnasium
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Dexter Gymnasium, April 2014
36°47′25″N 89°57′50″W / 36.79028°N 89.96389°W / 36.79028; -89.96389
Area	less than one acre
Built	1939 (1939)-1940
Architect	Sutterfield, J.L.
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	01000839^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 8, 2001

Dexter Gymnasium is a historic gymnasium located at Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was built in 1939-1940 during the Great Depression on a block donated to the local school system, and shares the block with a school and library. It is a rectangular two-story, Art Deco-style, reinforced concrete and brick building. It measures 88 feet by 96 feet and has a gentle geodesic arch roof. "The fourteen "ziggurat"-styled support columns or buttresses, seven each along the north and south facades, with their incised vertical lines, are an excellent example of this Art Deco style."^[2]^: 5

The school district built a new gymnasium in 1960, and this building was adapted for community use. In 1996 the school district donated the building and property to the city.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Leslie I. Booher (April 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Dexter Gymnasium" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 4 photographs from 2001)