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American School and University, 1973
Five cow barns were recently converted to provide additional space at a residential school farm facility for emotionally disturbed children. Provides pictures and drawings. (Author)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Facility Planning, Interior Design, Residential Schools
American School Board Journal, 1973
Describes how renovation and a little imagination can convert a city's older commercial buildings into sensitive, supportive quarters for education. The demographic changes within New York are offered as an example to other cities of the need for new kinds of facilities, rather than the need for new additional structures. (Author/WM)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Cost Effectiveness, Dropouts, School Buildings
Preservation League of New York State, Albany. – 1978
The Surplus Schools Project was designed to stimulate and encourage the adaptive use and preservation of vacant school buildings in New York State. Through a statewide competition, the Preservation League selected four surplus schools that were located in four distinctly different communities and presented a broad range of problems and…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Art Education, Building Conversion, Community Centers
Parry, Norm – American Libraries, 1997
Describes how a historic church building in New Woodstock, New York was converted into a full-service modern library. Discusses community support and patron involvement in the project, the design plan which retained the historical integrity and satisfied modern requirements, funding from local contributions, spatial arrangements, and provisions…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Architectural Character, Building Conversion, Building Design
Preston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1980
In an effort to understand the successful components of small community development projects in selected New York communities of less than 10,000 population, an analysis was made of the Sinclairville Project in Chautauqua County which rehabilitated an unused school building to function as a housing unit for senior citizens. Originally a group of…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Action, Community Development, Community Involvement