ARCHITECTURE ROOM
(This is a sample Display Case of the Architecture Room. Room
is
under construction.)
Red Cross House Case
Page 1
This page by Jerry Wilkinson
After the 1935 Hurricane the American Red
Cross
and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed 28
concrete
homes for residents who owned property and lost their homes.
Note: They also built four wooden structures - two commercial; and two
residential.
There were one, two, three and four bedroom
houses.
The appearance was the same except the more the bedrooms, the longer
the
house. They were configured differently inside, but the width were the
same.
The lower section is a water cistern divided
into
two compartments. The walls, floors, partitions and roof were
reinforced
concrete. See page 2 for construction.
Above can be seen the effects of the salt
water
concrete and the steel reinforcement bar. Rusting caused the
"spauling."
The outside walls are 12 inches thick and
easily
reparable. Above is a beach home in Islamorada. Let's go and build a
Red
Cross house through photos.
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