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Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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be paid out for the erection ofschoolhouses of two or more stories until theplans for such buildings shall have been sub-mitted to the state architect and approved as toall the requirements of this act.—(Laws 1909,Chapter 209.) The Virginia Law Construction of schoolhouses. No school-house shall be contracted for or erected untilthe site, location, plans and specifications there-for shall have been submitted to and approvedin writing by the division superintendent ofschools, whose action in each case shall be re-ported by him to the State Board of Education;and no public school shall be allowed in anybuilding which is not in such condition and pro-vided with such conveniences as are required bya due regard to decency and health; and when aschoolhouse appears to the division superintend-ent of schools to be unfit for occupancy, it shallbe his duty to condemn the same and immediate-ly to give notice thereof in writing to the chair-man of the district school board, and thenceforth 209
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at < 210 ScJioolhouse Lazus no public school shall be held therein, nor shallany part of the state or county fund be appliedto support any school in such house until thedivision superintendent shall certify, in writing,to the district school board that he is satisfiedwith the condition of such building and with theappliances pertaining thereto.—(Code, Sec. 1489,Par. 56.) The Massachusetts Law 1. That the apparatus will, with proper man-agement, heat all rooms, including the corridorsto 70 degrees F. in any weather. 2. That, with the rooms at 70 degrees and adifference of not less than 40 degrees betweenthe temperature of the outside air and that ofthe air entering the room at the warm air inlet,the apparatus will supply at least thirty cubicfeet of air per minute for each scholar accom-modated in the room. 3. That such supply of air will so circulatein the rooms that no uncomfortable draught willbe felt, and that the difference in temperature be-tween any two points on the breath

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