Quarry Visitor Center, U.S. Highway 40, 8 miles north of Jensen, Jensen, Uintah County, UT

Significance: The visitor center is one of the four most significant visitor centers produced by the "Mission 66" program, which transformed the American National Park system to meet postwar conditions. The program focused on the visitor center as its central planning and design element. Quarry Visitor Center was one of the earliest and most successful examples of the new building type. This building established new standards for visitor center design, and became a unique example of "in situ" interpretation of park resources.

The building is an architectural type specimen as one of the most significant examples of Park Service Modern architectural style. The visitor center was an early, precedent setting example of the new, modern style embraced by the Park Service as part of Mission 66. Anshen and Allen, among the most important American modern architects, designed the building. More than any other early Mission 66 visitor center, Quarry Visitor Center legitimized modern architectural style for use in national parks.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1611

Survey number: HABS UT-138

Building/structure dates: 1958 Initial Construction

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