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Experiencing the Space

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Hover over the Community School Plan No. 20, which was used to build St. Johns, to uncover some of the interior views of the schoolhouse. Click on the images to find out a little bit more.

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Explore the videos and images of the current conditions of St. Johns Elementary School. What would space have felt like if the windows and walls were all still in perfect condition as they might have been in 1922-23 when the school was first completed.

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Imagine the clean floors and the sunlight spanning the width of the building with fewer walls blocking you from one side to another.

Image 3: East Wall, Central Northern Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 8:Southwestern corner, Southern Most Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 10: West Wall, Industrial Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 4: Wood Flooring, Central Northern Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. January 12, 2017.
Image 6: Potbelly Stove chimney access, west wall, Central Southern Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 2: East Wall, Northern Most Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 7: Ceiling, Southern Most Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. March 30, 2019.
Image 5: North wall, Central Southern Room, St. Johns School, Albemarle County, Virginia. Photograph by Hannah Glatt. 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: East Wall, Northern Most Room, St. Johns School. Glatt

The Interior Views

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Seeing the building in architectural plan and through photography allows you to think a little deeper about the spaces you occupy. How can the two-dimensional influence the three-dimensional? Students moved throughout these rooms every day for class.

They arrived early to heat the furnaces and stayed late to clean the floors.

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