Fayette City Park Swimming Pool
Fayette City Park Swimming Pool, also known as the Fayette WPA Pool and WWI Memorial, is a historic swimming pool located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration funded project. The pool building is a roughly egg shaped, one-story Art Deco structure with a rectangular two-story entrance hall on the north. The building has two-toned brick walls and a concrete foundation.[2]:5[3]
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| Location | Memorial Park Fayette, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 39°9′7″N 92°41′42″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Bintz, Wesley; Sheets, M.A. |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000457[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 15, 1999 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]
The Fayette City Park Swimming Pool is one of several above-ground swimming pools designed by architect Wesley Bintz between 1919 and the 1950s. Headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, Bintz patented his iconic "Bintz Pool," which boasted efficiency and cost-effectiveness through the use of the "ovoid" shape and the above-ground design. While there were once about 135 "Bintz" swimming pools throughout the United States, today there are approximately 16 still standing, with even fewer still operating as swimming pools.
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Debbie Sheals (February 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fayette City Park Swimming Pool" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 14 photographs from 1998)
- "Above ground pool". Friday, 5 October 2018
