National and State Register

Coates Creek Schoolhouse

Mesa County

Built in 1919, the school was located so close to the Colorado / Utah border that children from Utah often attended.

A black and white photo of the house with log walls and wide gabled roof with protruding gabled entrance in front. Before the school stands a a swing set.

Coates Creek Schoolhouse (1992 photograph.)

It is Mesa County’s only surviving rural schoolhouse of log construction.  Listed under Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.  

National Register

Address

D S Rd., 16 miles west of Glade Park

Site Number

5ME.6985