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Experiencing the Space

What do you want to explore?

Hover over the Community School Plan No. 20 exterior drawing to explore the exterior elements of St. Johns Elementary School. Click on the images to find out a little bit more.

Image 13: West Facade, Front, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 7: Crawlspace Access, North Facade, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 15: South yard area, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 10: Original heat chimney, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 11: Southwestern entrance, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 8: Closed-off northwestern entrance, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 5: Northwestern exterior corner, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 4: Southeastern exterior corner, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image12: Crawlspace, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 2: Back East Facade, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 14: Southeastern exterior corner, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 3: Northern end of East Facade, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 6: East Facade corner, window detail, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 9: Exterior vent, West Facade, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.

Fly around the school and its property to understand the connections between the school and the landscape. How has the site changed since its construction?

Image 16: Arial Drone Shot of St. Johns School and St. Johns Baptist Church, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Michael Tucker. March 30, 2019.

For full text and image citations reference the two linked PDFs in the website footer, at the bottom of the page.

Image 1: Detail of industrial room roof, West Façade, St. Johns School. Glatt.

The Exterior Views

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An architectural drawing can only tell you so much, but documentary photographs of the buildings exterior help to evoke a deeper understanding of St. Johns. Some of the money might have come from the Rosenwald Fund to build St. Johns but it is about the community raising money and building it together.

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