I checked your family tree for additional information on Richard and June, your Breckon tree showed his birth as 1981(sic) and June as 1922. I guess she liked the YOUNGER men. The Gutridge tree shows his birth in 1918, which is probably better for the family.
The building pictured at the link provided by the other, with no additional information is now used by the Snake River Heritage Center. It is only a museum, only open from 1-4 on Thurs/Saturdays June 1 to Sept 1. So, don't expect them to do research.
The link identifies the school was devastated by the Depression, the assets sold to benefit the College of Idaho and Whitman College and the school used by Weiser School District until 1967.
The Great Depression last from about 1929 to late 1930's to early 1940's.
This link, last paragraph tells the final date as the Institute:
http://payettecounty.info/marlow/changentimes.htmlThe Idaho Industrial Institute was founded October 20, 1899 by E. A. Paddock, Jane Slocum and Thomas Maryott. In 1915 it was renamed the Intermountain Institute. Because of its excellence, students found it was an alternative to public school. It had impressive classrooms and dormitories, its own print shop, meat and smoke shop, broom factory, dairy farm and students farmed 1200 acres of irrigated land. The school was supported by donations, until depression days. It closed its doors in 1933. Most of its buildings are still standing.
So, if your parents met there, it "probably" was after 1933, as Richard was only 15, June was 11. Based on the above, the school was used by the Weiser School District until 1967. So, they "probably" met there while the Weiser School District was using it.
I would suggest an attempt for information from the school district. Many school districts do have an administrator that has access to historic information they use for programs. I have done some history work for a local district.
http://www.weiserschools.org/I can NOT guarantee any success with this route.
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The National Register of Historic Places, identifies the Institute, it has "significant years" of 1907 and 1929, "Period of Significance: 1925-1949, and 1900 to 1924,
http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/id/Washington/vaca...From:
http://washington.idgenweb.org/intermtninst.htmThe school was established in 1899 to provide rural children an opportunity to attend high school. Beardsley Hall, completed in 1907, housed 40 girls on the second and third floors, a dining hall in the basement, the school’s chapel on the first floor, and a gymnasium in the attic. Slocum Hall was built in 1909 at a cost of $30,000. It housed a swimming pool in the basement, and was the boys’ dormitory. It also held the Institute’s library and reading room until the Carnegie Library was completed in 1919. Hooker Hall, which was the Institute’s administration and classroom building, was completed in 1924 at a cost of 100,000, and also contained a modern auditorium and woodworking shops in the basement. Billings Memorial Gymnasium was the last structure added to the campus, built in 1929 for $40,000. It contained a swimming pool and basketball court.
Ron Bestrom
Tacoma, WA