School Building

[Rex in Pinetop]

My next project is a school building.  Do any of you have some pictures of steam era/western school buildings?

Thanks,

Rex

[ttrigg]

1904 school house, brick

http://www.hominydiner.com/hominy.html

 

Hyde Park Hist. Soc.

http://hydeparklibrary.org/h_s.html

 

Sacramento CA

http://geography.about.com/library/photos/blzz34.htm

 

1906

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/big/big_027_schoolhouse.aspx

 

1841

http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/adams_corner/schoolhouse.html

 

an assortment

http://urbangraceinteriors.typepad.com/the_blog/2008/03/one-room-school.html

 

1882 little red school house.

http://www.petergreenberg.com/2008/07/05/one-tank-trips-los-angeles-to-santa-barbara-county/

 

As fertile as your imagination is this should give you a good jump start.

 

[Rex in Pinetop]

Tom,

Thanks for the ideas.  My chief-of-staff likes the Ballard "little red school house" with the tower so I'l be buying another fence board or two.

Thanks again,

Rex

[Fat Man]

Hi Rex. I used to have a farm in Southern Ill. and down the road was a eight sided brick school house the oldest one in Ill. and I made a copy of it for my layout. If you are interrsted I could send you a pictor of the real one and you could go from there. It wass fun to build but all the compound angles was a little hard on me.

 

thanks Fatman

[Rex in Pinetop]

Fatman,

I might try a brick/stone building someday but right now my era is heavy timber construction. 

I would love to see your school building pictures.  One of my grad school projects (many years ago) was to design a multi-sided home without interior corners for the Hoppie Indians.  It needed to be prefabed as much as possible so it could be trucked into remote areas and assembled in one week by two people working with just hand tools at individual sites.  All of us grad students submitted our designs and mine was selected to be prototyped.  My design was a 20 sided (basically round) hogan like structure of 4 x 8 exterior wall sections.  Some sections had windows and some had doors all prefabed so they could be assembled in any order.  The cone roof was held together by a cable in tension around the preimeter with a 6" segment of 3' iron pipe in compression in the center.  A post held the center pipe ring during construction but once the cable was tightened the post was removed giving us about a 500 square ft room.  It was a fun project and some of them are still around in the different reservations here in AZ.

Rex

 

[Fat Man]

Hi Rex; I will get a pucture of the school dug out and send to you. I did not make mine with brick either. I took a large license and made it from wood with shake shingles and not slate like the real one.

 

fats