Yachats Commons
441 Highway 101, Yachats, OR 97498
Yachats School 1945
Yachats Commons 2019
Yachats 1951 Classroom
What the paper described as being, "New and Modern Classroom in the Yachats Grade School"
Yachats school photo from 1958
Yachats's First School in 1896
South side of the School ~TBD
Portia T. Doodle
Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program (YYFAP)
Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program 2020
More Information Coming Soon
Built in the 1930s, The Yachats Commons was initially a K-12 school. In 1937 the graduating class had five graduates. In 1983 the school, by then just an elementary school with 35 students, closed. One Yahatian worried this might cause the town to, "Turn into just one big nursing home."
In 1990 the city of Yachats bought the building. It now houses City Hall and is used for a variety of community activities.
The sculpture in front of the commons, Portia T. Doodle, was created by Ruth Bass and purchased by Polly Plum Productions. It is one of twenty life-size sea lion sculptures originally displayed along the Oregon Coast as part of the "Dancing With Sea Lions Project. "