| Fayette City Park Swimming Pool | |
| Coordinates: | 39.1519°N -92.695°W |
| Architect: | Bintz, Wesley; Sheets, M.A. |
| Architecture: | Art Deco |
| Added: | April 15, 1999 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 99000457 |
Fayette City Park Swimming Pool, also known as the Fayette WPA Pool and WWI Memorial, is a historic swimming pool located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration funded project. The pool building is a roughly egg shaped, one-story Art Deco structure with a rectangular two-story entrance hall on the north. The building has two-toned brick walls and a concrete foundation.[1] [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The Fayette City Park Swimming Pool is one of several above-ground swimming pools designed by architect Wesley Bintz between 1919 and the 1950s. Headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, Bintz patented his iconic "Bintz Pool," which boasted efficiency and cost-effectiveness through the use of the "ovoid" shape and the above-ground design. While there were once about 135 "Bintz" swimming pools throughout the United States, today there are approximately 16 still standing, with even fewer still operating as swimming pools.