Schoolhouse Zylstra, Sape A., photographer : Carter, Jesse, constructor University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library still image Color photographs Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida, Tampa Library c. 1855 eng Built by General Jesse Carter for his daughter in the same general area where it is now, it consists of a square classroom with a porch at one end (under the same saddle roof) and at the other end a teacher's room, narrower and with a roof of equal pitch as the main roof and hence lower. ....the second roof could have been equally as high as the first and with a steeper pitch; or the teacher's room could have been added in the manner of the "saltbox," on the long side. But that would have been "medieval ," and the tell-tale sign (a pediment rather than a gable) shows that in however modest a form, what we have here i s a bit of the Greek Revival , the reigning architectural passion in the United States from about 1820 to 1860. [SAZ] Built by General Jesse Carter for his daughter in the same general area where it is now, it consists of a square classroom with a porch at one end (under the same saddle roof) and at the other end a teacher's room, narrower and with a roof of equal pitch as the main roof and hence lower. ....the second roof could have been equally as high as the first and with a steeper pitch; or the teacher's room could have been added in the manner of the "saltbox," on the long side. But that would have been "medieval ," and the tell-tale sign (a pediment rather than a gable) shows that in however modest a form, what we have here i s a bit of the Greek Revival , the reigning architectural passion in the United States from about 1820 to 1860. [SAZ] University of Tampa--History Greek revival Public schools -- Florida -- Tampa -- Photographs School facilities--United States--History Sape A. Zylstra Architectural Slides Collection
Schoolhouse
Zylstra, Sape A., photographer : Carter, Jesse, constructor
University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library
still image
Color photographs
Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida, Tampa Library
c. 1855
eng
Built by General Jesse Carter for his daughter in the same general area where it is now, it consists of a square classroom with a porch at one end (under the same saddle roof) and at the other end a teacher's room, narrower and with a roof of equal pitch as the main roof and hence lower. ....the second roof could have been equally as high as the first and with a steeper pitch; or the teacher's room could have been added in the manner of the "saltbox," on the long side. But that would have been "medieval ," and the tell-tale sign (a pediment rather than a gable) shows that in however modest a form, what we have here i s a bit of the Greek Revival , the reigning architectural passion in the United States from about 1820 to 1860. [SAZ]
Built by General Jesse Carter for his daughter in the same general area where it is now, it consists of a square classroom with a porch at one end (under the same saddle roof) and at the other end a teacher's room, narrower and with a roof of equal pitch as the main roof and hence lower. ....the second roof could have been equally as high as the first and with a steeper pitch; or the teacher's room could have been added in the manner of the "saltbox," on the long side. But that would have been "medieval ," and the tell-tale sign (a pediment rather than a gable) shows that in however modest a form, what we have here i s a bit of the Greek Revival , the reigning architectural passion in the United States from about 1820 to 1860. [SAZ]
University of Tampa--History
Greek revival
Public schools -- Florida -- Tampa -- Photographs
School facilities--United States--History
Sape A. Zylstra Architectural Slides Collection