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Identifier: sundayschoolbuil00evan (find matches)
Title: The Sunday-school building and its equipment
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Francis
Subjects: Sunday school buildings
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en the two rooms.The Mothers room, to which reference is madelater, may be located with convenient access tothese departments. The Primary Departmentroom should be large enough to permit of divisioninto three rooms by means of accordion doors orother device. This will permit each grade to havea room by itself for the class hour. Should thisnot be practicable, a compromise may be made byhaving two smaller classrooms opening from themain Primary room. All that has been said in theparagraph on the Beginners Department concern-ing sunshine, height of ceiling, placing of pictures,tables, and chairs is applicable here. The tablesshould be of a height that will enable the pupils towork with comfort. The chairs should enable thechildren to sit with their feet easily reaching thefloor. Fig. 5 gives the floor plan of the LongBeach (California) Methodist Primary Depart-ment which has many admirable features. Notethe provision for childrens toilet, visitors, separate 28 The Sunday-School Building
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-r W to do Needs of Departments 29 classrooms, and soft, overhead light. The Plym-outh Church, Minneapolis, has a department forGrades i to 4 (Fig. 6) which is thus described bythe superintendent of the school in Religious Edu-cation (August, 1910): The Junior Department includes the Kindergarten classand the first four grades, and for this section of the schoolthe Junior or Childrens room was designed. Accessiblethrough a large double door, it is a room 30X34 feet in size.In one corner is a door which leads to a safe iron fire escape.The room is lighted by eight Gothic windows. The wood-work is a soft brown-toned oak, the walls painted in flatcolor to harmonize with the panelings. A good yellow-brown carpet covers the floor; simple net curtains softenthe light which comes through the many diamond panes ofclear glass. The room is furnished with 120 speciallydesigned little Gothic chairs in the same soft brown color. A unique feature of this room is the generoususe of the best art in i

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