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A Guide for the Adaptive Use of Surplus Schools.

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Giljahn, Jack W.; Matheny, Thomas R. – 1981

This manual provides recommendations for school boards and communities concerning the leasing, selling, and marketing of school buildings. The reuse potential of each type of school building is investigated, and suggestions are made for successful conversions. Design considerations and the many aspects of acquiring and developing a school reuse…

Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Obsolescence, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education

Pittsburgh Adapts to Changing Times.

States, Deidre – American School and University, 1985

The Samuel F. B. Morse School, built in 1874 and closed in 1980, is a historic landmark in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now the building serves as low-income housing for 70 elderly tenants and is praised as being an imaginative and creative use of an old school structure. (MLF)

Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Conversion, Elementary Education, Older Adults