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City may gain landmarks
 
Mount Hope stands to inherit two landmarks on Main Street from the Fayette County Board of Education, increasing the city's growing cultural and economic viability.

Mayor Michael Martin told reporters for The Register Herald in July 2003 that he welcomed the chance to acquire Mount Hope Middle School and its historic gymnasium.

The Loop Creek District YMCA building was completed  in 1922 at a cost of $110,000.

Built in the early 1900s as a YMCA, the gymnasium was the first completely fire-proof building in the U.S. and was built of red brick in the Beaux Arts Classicism architectural style.

Either building could be adapted as a cultural center, Martin pointed out. The school in particular lends itself to reuse as a satellite campus, he said.

Read more about the town's historic YMCA building.

 
 
 
 

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