Washington School (3) Markers

Park City raised this schoolhouse in 1889, one of three built to teach the children of its miners, and cut it from local limestone — a choice that saved it when the Great Fire of 1898 swept away much of the town around it. School let out for good decades ago; the building served as a dance hall, then a bed-and-breakfast, before a gut renovation reopened it in 2011 as the Washington School House Hotel. One of the last original schoolhouses of its kind, it has been on the National Register since 1978.

What the plaque says

This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Park City — steps away
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.
• Park City Main Street — steps away
  A historic mining town turned world-class ski and film festival destination
• Park City Mountain — 0.7 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Deer Valley — 1.6 mi
  A ski-only luxury resort above Park City, now in the middle of the largest expansion in U.S. ski history.

More markers nearby

• St. Luke's Episcopalian Church (2) Markers — steps away
• Star Market & Grocery — steps away
• The Claimjumper Hotel — steps away
• Elks Lodge — steps away