Every town’s got its railroad station, store, bar, and place of worship. But what about a schoolhouse? Without the fundamentals of a proper education, kids might turn out to be bloggers with the spelling abilities of a Tweeter, LOL and OMG! So here’s the way to teach them kids the old fashioned way–by wrapping 'em on the knuckles with a ruler. Oh no, wait, that’s only if you’re in Catholic school. Anyway, this one-room classic stands in Old Sacramento, not far from the California State Railroad Museum. Lots of quaint structures to see and document. Head on, she looksa like this. Pretty easy to replicate. Novelty siding is 7-inches wide, so count the boards, multiply by that and ya get the height. Width-wise, well, the double doors are 68-in. wide and 94-in. high, the windows are 38 x 80 in. You do the math.
Sideview: I didn’t measure the entire building (Hey, it was hotter than a pistol and I had only an 8-foot tape), but if you use the windows as a gauge, ya can fake it. If ya got to know more, on the front wall it is 43 in. from the edge of the window to the corner molding, which is 2-in. wide (that makes 45 in. for those of you who are math impaired). I’m guessing the same spacing between molding and window exists on the side wall (them architect types like symmetry).
The interior: we’re talkin’ Ms Krabapple’s turf. I sat in a desk just like that. Left a tuna sandwich in there one day and forgot about. A few days later the smell reminded me. No wonder Arlene Kanowska, my 8th grade heart throb, wouldn’t sit next to me.
