This is the second school that was built here in Rhyolite. The first one was a wonderful little wooden
building, but it blew off it's foundation during one of our infamous winds. Well, it was getting too small anyway. There were so many
children of school age by 1907 that they opened another small school at the County Hospital until they could figure out what
the town was going to do!
This one was completed in January of 1909, the last major building to be built in Rhyolite. It had a galvanized Spanish tile
Roof, a bell copula, and two stories made of fireproof concrete. The only problem was by the time thy finished the new school, people
were already starting to move out of town, there just wasn't enough children to fill the school.
Rhyolite was a spunky little town though, and they used the upstairs for socials, meetings, just anything they needed a large
room for. You'll notice the roof is gone, as well as everything else! If you visit Beatty, and you go to the middle school, you'll
see the roof, windows and interior wood on their little schoolhouse in the corner. Everything is recycled in the desert you see.
THUMB NAILS OF THE RHYOLITE SCHOOL
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