The school (the only in the village) was closed and abandoned in 2011 although a campaign-led by the Guam Preservation Trust and the mayor of Humåtak-is now underway to breathe new life into the International Style building. Sanchez Elementary School, located in the tiny coastal village of Humåtak in southwestern Guam.Ĭonstructed in 1953, the long-vacant and severely deteriorating primary school was one a small handful of realized structures designed by Richard Neutra in Guam, including the Government House, shortly after the island was established as an unincorporated organized territory of the United States in 1950.
This year’s list features one, and it’s fascinating: the Francisco Q. Now in its 35th year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual list of architectural and cultural heritage sites that are at risk of suffering further damage or being lost altogether also often-but not always-features an imperiled modernist building or two.
