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RAMSEY TOWN HALL, Ramsey, Minnesota <br />1. Introduction <br />The Ramsey Old Town Hall is located in <br />Ramsey, Minnesota. The primary facade faces <br />roughly East. <br />It is a small wood framed building with a <br />rectangular footprint. The building is cladded <br />in Chaska brick, and the roof has asphalt <br />shingles. The building has a first floor <br />composed of a handful of rooms supported by <br />wood floor joists. There is a basement that has <br />a small landing and crawl space under the <br />remainder of the first floor. <br />There have already been some preservation <br />efforts on the building. There is gypsum board <br />on the wood studs throughout the first level. <br />Many of the probable future occupants of the <br />Ramsey Town hall are small businesses. While <br />the city of Ramsey may add a small homage <br />inside the building to its historic significance, <br />it will not be a focus of the reuse. <br />Considering these factors, we have decided to <br />make recommendations based upon the <br />Secretary of the Interior's Standards for <br />Rehabilitation. <br />s c e 1— Ran.,ey Town Hall Primary f v: <br />Figure 2 — North Orientea iviap <br />2. History <br />The Ramsey Town Hall was built in 1892 as a <br />one room school house referred to as the <br />District No. 28 School. The brick school was <br />built to replace a smaller wood frame school <br />house. It is currently located at 14100 St. <br />Francis Boulevard NW in Ramsey, Minnesota. <br />From 1892 until 1946, the building served as a <br />modest rural schoolhouse for students from <br />first to eighth grade. The building was <br />constructed of buff colored bricks that were <br />manufactured at the nearby Kelsey Brickyard. <br />It had decorative segmental arches over the <br />doors and windows, and a wood shingled <br />roof. It had a pair of front doors that opened <br />vertically at the center and were topped by a <br />bell for calling students. Upon entering, there <br />was a coat closet for the girls on the right, a <br />water station and entrance to the basement <br />in the center, and a coat closet for the boys <br />and the archway into the classroom on the <br />left. In the classroom, the teacher's desk was <br />to the right, along the east wall. There was a <br />small closet behind the teacher's desk. Rows <br />of student desks faced the center of the room, <br />chalkboards were on the back, west wall, and <br />a wood burning stove sat in the back <br />northwest corner. The building had plaster <br />walls with wainscoting, a pressed tin ceiling, <br />arched windows, and no electricity or running <br />water. <br />Ramsey Town Hall 1 <br />