150023 – Logan Elementary School

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Site Plan for Logan Elementary

Floor Plan for Logan Elementary

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150023; Logan Elementary School. This school is located at 301 Sycamore Street,

Altoona, Pennsylvania, in Logan Township, Blair County. It is part of the Altoona Area School District. The 1960 school is situated close to the center of the property, at the

end of a long driveway from Sycamore Street. The school is separated from the roadway by multiple other properties, paved parking areas, a circular driveway, and a grass

island with a flagpole and concrete walkways. Paved parking extends along the northwestern side of the building as well. A modern utility shed and enclosed area are

located northwest of this lot. Softball fields are located northwest and southwest of the school. A nature learning center with pavilion is located southwest of the school as well.

A paved basketball court is located east of the school. The school grounds also feature open fields and scattered trees and landscaping, including a garden tucked between the

two linear wings of the building. A path extends east of the school to connect with the Blair County Head Start Center, which functioned as an elementary school when this

building was a junior high school.

This school is arranged in a U-plan with one long linear interior hallway wing and one short linear interior hallway wing each attached at their northern ends to a square

center section containing the gymnasium/auditorium. The shorter one-story northwest wing contains kindergarten classrooms and a cafeteria. The longer two-story southeast

wing contains classrooms, offices, and a library. A 2001 two-story classroom addition is appended to the southwest end of this wing. The steel frame 1960 structure features

concrete block and brick cavity walls. The building has a flat-roof covered with rubber

membrane and a simple steel-covered cornice. Its foundation is obscured. The walls feature cement panels. The building has an interior brick chimney. The school is oriented

to the northeast, with the main entrance located across a lobby from the gymnasium. The entrance contains four sets of aluminum-frame glass double doors surrounded by

fixed windows. The entrance is inset below the main roof of the building. The building is lit by aluminum-clad wood casement windows installed in 2001. The design and

construction materials of the 2001 addition are similar to the original building.

The entryway to the building features terrazzo floor tiles, glazed tile walls, a dropped

ceiling with acoustic ceiling tiles, fluorescent lights, and a wood display case. The gymnasium features concrete-block walls, acoustic ceiling tiles, fluorescent lights,

rollaway bleachers, and suspended basketball hoops. A stage is inset into the southeast wall of the gym. The cafeteria features a tiled floor, concrete-block walls, acoustic ceiling

tiles, and fluorescent lights. The library features plaster walls, dropped ceiling with acoustic ceiling tiles, and hanging fluorescent lights.

Dedicated in 1960, this school building was built in 1959 by the Logan Township School

District as a junior high school. It was located next to an elementary school for the district, now the Blair County Head Start Center. Logan Township School District merged

with the Altoona School District in 1966, and Logan became the third junior high school in the merged Altoona Area School District. The school was converted to an elementary

school in 1981 and re-outfitted to be more elementary-friendly. Children from two elementary schools were transferred to Logan. In 2001 a new addition of four

classrooms was constructed, and extensive renovation to the original building occurred.

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Altoona Area School District

2003 Logan Elementary School Dedication and Open House brochure

provided by the Altoona Area School District.

United States Department of Agriculture

1967 Aerial Photograph AQH-10HH-17. Created on September 4, 1967.

On file at the Pennsylvania Geological Survey Library, Middletown,

Pennsylvania.

United States Geological Survey

1984 Bellwood, PA Quadrangle. Topography by photogrammetric methods

from aerial photographs taken 1962. Field checked 1963.

Photorevised 1972. Photoinspected 1984. Denver, CO or Reston, VA.

1994 Bellwood SW, PA Aerial Photograph. USGS Reference Number

40078-E3-04-PHT. Created on April 20, 1994.

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Aerial View of Logan Elementary

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More Photos of Logan Elementary School