Thanks to Newell Hart’s granddaughter, Sorel Frew, who provided the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation with a collection of comments regarding the Oneida Stake Academy, which originally appeared in Hart’s Cache Vally Newsletter (CVN) from 1969 to 1982, we present Recollections. Daines Famiy gathers  at OSA to film for visual history of Newel Daines From March […]

The building’s name carved in stone. The frame which will hold the newly carved rock or the academy. New end-piece and date stone. The OSA was assembled between 1890 and 1894. It was dedicated in 1895. Pieces of the new gable for the Oneida Stake Academy building are coming together in the shops of Kepco […]

The Oneida Stake Academy in 1917.  The board of the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation was notified of $200,000 in grants just before Christmas. Half of it came from an anonymous alumni and the other half from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation. “Wow, what a thrill,” said OSAF chairman, Nathan Hale. “We are […]

New blocks of stone sit above the Oneida Stake Academy’s front windows, in preparation for the new gable which will be installed at the first of 2012.  In addition, new blocks cut from stone taken from the academy’s original quarry, have replaced highly deteriorated stone. As funds are raised, craftsmen from State Stone of Salt […]

 A close-up of the first steps to replacing the long- lost stone gable, shows where severely weather-damaged rock was cut away by craftsmen at State Stone of Salt Lake City. They will fill this space with new blocks of stone anchored to the existing building by stainless steel rods. Over the last six months, craftsmen […]