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National
Register of Historic Places
After nearly four years of working on the Old Stone
School whenever time, and money, would allow, the major
restoration of the Old Stone School was complete.
In April of 1984,
the Old Stone School and it's immediate property were
nominated for listing in the National Register of Historic
Places. The nomination process was very consuming, requiring
a great deal of documented historical research, as well
as a comprehensive site survey. Once submitted, the
approval process is, to put it politely, very slow.
Hard work, patience
and perseverence paid off in March of 1985 when Mr.
McGough received word that the Old Stone School's nomination
had been approved, and would be placed on the National
Register of Historic Places. In the confirmation letter,
the following statement was written:
"The
Lower Shell Valley Stone Schoolhouse is an outstanding
example of the vanishing one-room schoolhouse and
embodies the distinctive characteristic of a type
of construction employed by pioneer masons utilizing
indigenous building materials. Not only does the building
retain its integrity, the landscape has unimpaired
visual integrity so the historic ecological relationships
remain unaltered. The Stone School is a visual symbol
of the process by which human beings organized their
frontier communities and social development necessary
to a civilized society. As one of the few remaining,
intact one-room schoolhouses in Wyoming, the Lower
Shell Valley Stone School house has received recognition
by enrollment on the National Register of Historic
Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior in March,
1985."
It was especially
gratifying to have the U.S. Department of the Interior
screening committee to also acknowledge that all basic
restoration work “has
been done with a minimum of disturbance to the original
character of the building.”
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