Price Municipal Building

Price built its city hall on New Deal money. Raised in 1938–39 for $175,000 — most of it a Works Progress Administration grant — it was one of the largest WPA buildings in Utah. But its treasure is inside: the walls of the entrance foyer carry a mural of early Carbon County history, painted as part of the WPA's Federal Art Project by Lynn Fausett, a muralist born in Price who had gone east to make his name and came home to paint his own county's story. The building still serves the city.

What the plaque says

The Municipal Building was constructed 1938-1939. The construction was funded with $85,000 provided by the city and a $90,000 federal grant from the Works Progress Association. The building is significant as one of the largest buildings constructed in Utah under the WPA Program and for the mural depicting the history of early Carbon County painted on the four walls of the foyer as part of the Federal Arts Project of the WPA by the Price-born artist, Lynn Fausett.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — steps away
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — steps away
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 20 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

More markers nearby

• First Meetinghouse — steps away
• Coal Man Machine — steps away
• The Price of Freedom World War I Memorial — steps away
• Immigrant Monument — steps away