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Resident urges preserving historic fairgrounds pavilion as county discusses event center
Summary
A local resident told commissioners she supports building an event center but urged keeping the pavilion at the fairgrounds, citing its WPA-era construction and community memories.
During public comment at the May 13 Moffat County commissioners meeting, a resident urged the board and staff to preserve a small stone pavilion at the fairgrounds while planning a new event center.
The speaker said research attributed the pavilion’s construction to the Works Progress Administration in 1941 and that stone for the structure came from the same quarry as the courthouse. She said the pavilion was used during World War II by an army radio school and described numerous community events — dances, receptions and fair activities — that had taken place there.
The resident asked the board to “find a way to marry the two of them,” keeping the historic pavilion in place while adding a new event center, and expressed concern about whether local restaurants could accommodate larger events.
The comment was recorded during the public-comment portion of the meeting; no board action or staff response committing to preservation was recorded in the transcript.
