Community Fine Arts Center - 400 C Street

Cross the street and cut though the parking lot of the Community Fine Arts Center. Inside is an excellent art collection of over 400 original American works, including paintings by Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses. This collection has been featured in both “Time” and “Life” magazines. The 1929 building was formerly a red brick Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was purchased in 1965 to house the art collection.

After visiting the Community Fine Arts Center, walk north on C Street back toward the downtown area. In the 1800’s C Street was a gully four feet wide and four feet deep. An 1895 cloudburst sent water rushing down C Street bringing outhouses, chicken coops, baby buggies, bales of hay, wagons, chickens, and other things in its wake. After this flood, many of the residents on this street built concrete walls around their property.