NW corner of 2nd, S. and 2nd, E. Sts., Preston, Idaho. County/parish: Franklin.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 21, 1975. NRIS 75000630.
1 contributing building.
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 to 1922. The academy building was constructed in Preston, Idaho, in 1895, after the stake headquarters moved from Franklin, Idaho, in 1889.
Among its alumni were Ezra Taft Benson and Harold B. Lee, both of whom later served as church presidents. Medal of Honor recipients Mervyn S. Bennion, Leonard Brostrom, and Junior Van Noy also attended the school.
Following the emergence of the church's seminary program 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 continued to use the building until 1990.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84249905