File:Fourth Ward School, South C Street at Highway 17, Virginia City, Storey County, NV HABS NEV,15-VIRG,8- (sheet 9 of 9).tif

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HABS NEV,15-VIRG,8- (sheet 9 of 9) - Fourth Ward School, South C Street at Highway 17, Virginia City, Storey County, NV
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Related names:

Bennett, C M
Hartwig, Robert L, project manager
Hartwig, Robert L, delineator
Mizell, Robert P, delineator
Schafer, Jack W, delineator
McCreery, John T, delineator
Kerrigan, Robert W, photographer
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HABS NEV,15-VIRG,8- (sheet 9 of 9) - Fourth Ward School, South C Street at Highway 17, Virginia City, Storey County, NV
Depicted place Nevada; Storey County; Virginia City
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS NEV,15-VIRG,8- (sheet 9 of 9)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The school. along with the church, were important institutions to the pioneers of western towns. Located on the divide between Gold Hill and Virginia City, the prominent Fourth Ward School grandly housed the Comstock's students for sixty years. Local architect C.M. Bennett designed and supervised construction of the wood, mansard structure; Knight and McKay were general contractors. The building cost approximately $100,000-, obtained partly through subscriptions from individuals, mining, and business firms, and by holding benefits, balls, and raffles supervised by school trustees. Dedication was November 28, 1876. The October 15, 1876 "Sunday Territorial Enterprise" states the Fourth Ward's sixteen classrooms accommodate 1025 grammar and high school students. To "preserve the physical health even as it promotes the mental growth of the scholars," it notes that in addition to the building's two chimney stacks, each room has a separate ventilation stack, an individual heat register controlling one of the corner basement furnaces, and individual window vents. Rooms stoves were later added. The Fourth Ward School ceased functioning as a school in the mid-1930's, and it has since remained vacant. With state funds and volunteer labor, the Virginia City Restoration Commission restored the building in 1966-67.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1
  • Survey number: HABS NV-15-21
  • Building/structure dates: 1876 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1966-1967 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nv0019.sheet.00009a
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Object location39° 18′ 34.99″ N, 119° 38′ 55″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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