Riverton Elementary School, National Register of Historic Places educational institution in Riverton, Utah.
Riverton Elementary School is an educational building constructed between 1925 and 1930, located on South Redwood Road. The structure displays typical architectural features from early twentieth-century schools and now serves as the Riverton City Office.
The school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as the oldest surviving public school in Riverton. This recognition acknowledged its importance to the town's early development.
The building served as a gathering place for education and community life in Riverton for many years. Generations of students learned within these walls and shaped the local identity of the area.
The building is now accessible as a municipal office and still displays the original school architecture from the outside. Visitors can view the exterior and learn more about local history from staff inside the building.
The building sits on less than one acre of land and marks the period when Riverton transformed from farmland to suburban development. This small footprint shows how the town grew while agricultural traditions gradually shifted to urban living.
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