Governor Brann School
| Governor Brann School | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 Governor Brann School |
|||
|
|||
| location | Cyr Plantation , Aroostook County , Maine | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 7 '18 " N , 67 ° 57' 42" W | ||
| Built | 1934 | ||
| architect | Miller & Mayo | ||
| NRHP number | 93001432 | ||
| The NRHP added | December 23, 1993 | ||
The Governor Brann School is a former school building of the Cyr Plantation in Aroostook County in the state of Maine in the United States . It was named after the then incumbent Governor of the state of Maine, Louis J. Brann , and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Emergence
The area that now includes the Cyr Plantation was settled from 1824. In 1870 the area was organized as a plantation . At that time there were 376 residents. A first school building for the plantation was built in 1887 in what would later become school district 2. With the increasing number of inhabitants, at the end of the 19th century the population grew to more than 500, six school districts were established. In school district 3, the district in which the Gouvernor Brann School was later built, a first building was erected in 1896 for the price of 300 US dollars (around 9,406 US dollars in today's value). This was replaced by a new building in 1910, and in 1934 the Governor Brann School was built on US Highway 1 as the third school building for the district.
The plans for the school building were developed by the architects Miller & Mayo . They go back to a program in the state of Maine, with which plans were drawn up for model schools in order to be able to build inexpensive schools in rural areas with a minimum standard of lighting, heating and equipment. This should ensure the education of children in these areas. Several architectural offices submitted designs for schools and other public buildings. These models were marked with letters. The letter “J” stood for a one-room school that was built in Fort Fairfield in 1916 and “Q” for a building from 1941, designed by the architects Bunker & Bavage . It can no longer be determined according to which plan the Governor Brann School was built.
Building description
The Governor Brann School is a one-story, rectangular skeleton building clad with wood shingles and covered with a cantilevered hipped roof. The entrance door is protected by a small entrance porch. It is oriented to the west. Next to the entrance door there is a window on both the right and left side, consisting of two parts with 6 small panes each, the lower one of which can be pushed up. The south side of the building has 5 windows, each consisting of two parts with 9 small panes. Here, too, the lower parts can be pushed up. This row of windows ensured that sufficient light could enter the one-room school. On the north side, the open latrines and a storage room for wood were originally built, in which a brick fireplace protruded through the roof.
use
The building was used as a school building from 1934. After the population had declined significantly, along with the number of school children, three of the six schools in the Plantation were closed in 1943. The Governor Brann School continued to operate. In 1950, the remaining three schools were also closed when Cyr joined the towns of Van Buren and Hamlin to become the overall Maine School Administrative District No. 24 . was summarized. Since then, the school district's school children have attended schools in Van Buren. In 2016 the Cyr Plantation still had 93 residents.
The Governor Brann School was still used by the administration as a parish office and in the warmer months the parish meetings of the Cyr Plantation take place in this historic building. In order to save heating costs, the meetings are held in Van Buren in winter. The old school also serves as a polling station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Asset Detail. In: nps.gov. npgallery.nps.gov, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Msad # 24 / rsu # 88. In: msad24.org. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Cyr Plantation - Info. In: cyrplantation.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (American English).