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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. 'rhe Woodward School architectural description Woodwa.r d Elementary School is a two story structure built of locally quarried stone. Volcanic stone for the foundation 'had been intended for an earlier XX«XE structure which was never built. The walls are rough-faced, regular coursed red sandstone. Following a scheme similar EX to that of the Washington Elementary School and the Old Dixie College building which is located at the opposite corner of the ""1 oc k , .s it 1S c h O t 1C 0 f many sch 00 1 bOld -""- t h d• Ta b ernac 1 e ~ aracter1S U1 1ngs 0f .... ~BB e O per10 0 0 0 From the rectangular, truncated hip roofed central mass, gabled bays project on each elevation forming a symmetrical configuration. pavilion is a hipped roof bell tower or cupola. are decorative brackets. Atop the main entrance Under wixXeExwixXe the wide eaves Entrances on the east and west elevations are round arched. Windows are double hung sash types arranged in groups of three and four. are rough-faced blocks, coursed in conjunction with the walls. dressed ashlar elements which break the coursing Lintels Sills are fully _I!IiIE11!I:IiiI' som e w~t. s : : Like the Old Dixie College building the Woodward School seems heavily influenced ~lv'<1lY\e¥e by late Victorian forms, but especially by the RichardsoniarJ style in the handling of materials, simplicity of form, window' treatment and minimum detail. ~ The rough-faced masonry and round arched entrys are of course the primary indicator of this parelle1. STATEMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Woodward School is a representative example of turn-of-the-century school treatment house architecture in its RxRtixxg of materials, plan and elevation. It occupies an important position in the St. George community on the northwest corner of the Tabernacle block, one of seven significant public and religious structures there. XK Retaining integrity of general condition and setting, the building ~ continu~ to serve as an elementary school. of It is an expression of :KKE the commitment of the early citizen's Sb St. George to the value of education. |
