The Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building, at 20 N. One Hundred E in Morgan, Utah, was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is Art Deco in style, and was probably designed by Salt Lake City architects

Scott & Welch Scott & Welch was an architectural partnership of Carl W. Scott (born 1887) and George W. Welch (born 1886) that was based in Salt Lake City, Utah and began in 1914. They designed schools, libraries, and other buildings that were built by New Deal ...

. It is a one-story brick building with a gable roof surrounded by a parapet wall. Its walls are divided into panels by

pilasters In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wall ...

which have "stylized geometric capitals" made of concrete" which "project upward through the coping at the edge of the roof, giving the building a

crenelated A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at interv ...

appearance." With There are currently five mechanical arts buildings listed on the National Register in Utah. The other four are: * Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building (1935–36), Moroni, Utah *

Mount Pleasant High School Mechanical Arts Building The Mount Pleasant High School Mechanical Arts Building, at 150 N. State St. in Mount Pleasant, Utah, was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was built in 1935-36 as a Depression-era public work ...

(1935–36), Mount Pleasant, Utah *

Park City High School Mechanical Arts Building The Park City High School Mechanical Arts Building, at 1167 Woodside in Park City, Utah, was built in 1935–36. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is Moderne in style. It was built as a Works Project Admin ...

(1935–36), Park City, Utah *

Springville High School Mechanical Arts Building The Springville High School Mechanical Arts Building at 443 S. 200 East in Springville, Utah was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was an addition to the campus of the Springville High School w ...

(1929),

Springville, Utah Springville is a city in Utah County, Utah, Utah County, Utah that is part of the Provo–Orem metropolitan area. The population was 35,268 in 2020, according to the United States Census. Springville is a bedroom community for commuters who work ...

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National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, Utah Art Deco architecture in Utah Buildings and structures completed in 1936 1936 establishments in Utah {{Utah-NRHP-stub

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