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CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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1965, Chris Risher Sr. 730 Crestwood Dr.

Risher designed many public schools, most often on flat sites where, in a typically modernist fashion, he used long walkways covered by flat-roofed steel canopies to connect flat-roofed, one-story classroom blocks. The sloping ground here called for a more compressed one- and two-story scheme, which Risher organized around two courtyards. His steel-framed building with a flat-roofed steel entrance canopy is faced in red and tan brick, with repetitive, vertically oriented rolled-steel members subdividing horizontal strip windows. Some of the most dramatic spatial effects appear in the entrance courtyard, where brick masses are sculpted as interplays of solid and void and cantilevered steel carries hovering, horizontal roof planes.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL", [Meridian, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM21.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 220-221.

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