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Jefferson School

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1937. Northeast corner of Summit and Cherry streets

Here in this school are the elements of the PWA Moderne: horizontal windows, curved walls, and horizontal banding, all handled in a somewhat formal fashion. The detailing of the brick walls of this two-story building carried on into the 1930s many features usually associated with the Art Deco of the late twenties.

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Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Jefferson School", [Creston, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-SO055.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 322-322.

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