Oneida Stake Academy

Oneida Stake Academy

The building at its new location in 2010
Location 90 E. Oneida St., Preston, Idaho
Coordinates 42°05′46″N 111°52′28″W / 42.09611°N 111.87444°W / 42.09611; -111.87444Coordinates: 42°05′46″N 111°52′28″W / 42.09611°N 111.87444°W / 42.09611; -111.87444
Area less than one acre
Built 1890 (1890)
Architectural style Romanesque Revival
NRHP Reference # 75000630[1]
Added to NRHP May 21, 1975

The Oneida Stake Academy was a secondary school operated by the Oneida Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1888-1922. The academy building was constructed in Preston, Idaho in 1895, after the stake headquarters moved from Franklin, Idaho in 1889.[2]

Among its alumni were Ezra Taft Benson and Harold B. Lee both of whom later served as presidents of the church.[3] Medal of Honor recipients Mervyn S. Bennion, Leonard Brostrom and Junior Van Noy also attended this school.

Following the emergence of the LDS seminaries and better-equipped public schools, the LDS Church decided to close its system of secondary academies. In 1922 the Oneida Stake Academy was dissolved, although the public school system would continue to use the building until 1990.[2]

In 2003 the old Academy building was moved using funds raised by the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation to a new site called Benson Park that had been donated by the LDS Church.[3]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Fred E. Woods (Spring 2003). "The Forgotten Voice of the Oneida Stake Academy" (PDF). Mormon Historical Studies. 4 (1): 81–100. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  3. 1 2 Mormon Historic Sites Foundation article on the Academy
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