Hazen School

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Wooden school house at Hazen in 1914. Photo from the album of Lewellah Price.

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One of the first Standard Rural Schools in Nevada was built in 1918 in Hazen.

Lewellah Price notes being a teacher at a small wooden Hazen School house as early as 1914 . One of the first "Standard Rural Schools" in Nevada was built in 1918 at Hazen. The building contained three large rooms and had two teachers. To qualify as a Standard Rural School the building had to be built to certain government specifications and classses had to be conducted by teachers with a college degree. The last graduating class was in 1956. The foundation of the Hazen School house can still be seen along California Road in Hazen.

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CONTRACTS LET FOR HAZEN AND STILLWATER STRUCTURES TO FERNLEY MAN.
At a joint meeting of the Boards of School Trustees of Stillwater and Hazen school districts held Wednesday in the courthouse for the purpose of awarding the contract for the building of public schools, it was unanimously decided to place construction of the two buildings in the hands of contractor Olson of Fernley, lie being in both cases the lowest bidder.
The Hazen contract calls for the erection of a modern three room building of concrete to cost approximately $5,400.00, while the Stillwater building will be a duplicate
in plan but will be a frame building and will cost about $4,800.00. Plans and specifications for both buildings were made by architect William Mallis of Fallon. Construction will be begun at once and both buildings will be ready for occupancy when school opens in September.
There were present at the meeting Trustees Conrad, Frey, and Dalton of Stillwater, Trustees Pyle and Dobbs of Hazen, Architect Mallis, Attorney Cann, and Superintendent McCracken. In view of the difficulty of securing contractors' figures within the bond issues under present market conditions. the boards are to be congratulated upon this happy solution of what might have been a perplexing problem.
NEW SCHOOL BUILDING

Churchill County Eagle, June 9, 1917

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MODERN STRUCTURES ARE SECURED FOR STILLWATER AND HAZEN DISTRICTS

The new school building almost complete and ready for occupancy for Stillwater school district helps to mark an epoch in building and in school design and construction of district schools in this locality.
The school board is to be congratulated on the selection of the site which is located not only to meet the present needs of the community but will also meet the requirements of future expansion.
The three points essential in the design of an efficient school building—namely lighting, heating and ventilating—have been adequately contemplated so far as funds are available. The best practice in unilateral lighting has been developed to meet the requirements of the plan and in the school rooms the results demonstrate unilateral lighting at its very best. Provision has been made so that the installation of a modern type of heating and ventilating plant can be accomplished as soon as funds are available without the expense of any structural changes in the building.
The plan consists of two school rooms each with seating capacity for the maximum number of pupils that can be taken care of by one teacher and adjoining the west one of these rooms is a third room designed as a school room to be used now for social center purposes. The two last mentioned rooms can be readily thrown into one auditorium by the use of accordion doors which separate them. These rooms are all accessable separately from a central hall through doors specially designed for this class of school work, while the hall is well lighted and has a rear exit which can be utilized for future extensions of the building. As the building has been provided for protection from the weather. Two separate units of cloak rooms with a combined capacity of the auditorium have been provided while the other school room has been provided with a specially designed ventilated wardrobe.
The extension of the building has a simple classic treatment. The construction is of wood frame with thorough insulation and the fact that Mr. I. H. Kent executed most of the contract for the work speaks for its quality.
A similar building was recently completed under similar conditions at Hazen and the school boards of the two districts by close cooperation unquestionably have got results not otherwise obtainable.
A great deal of the credit of these two buildings is due Professor McCracken who suggested that the two districts cooperate and act as one business unit as far as possible and whose efforts with the architect, Mr. Mallis, in securing thoroughly up to date buildings were tireless. With this starting point and by unremitting work, these two school boards I have procured for their districts, better designed, better built and cheaper buildings than could have otherwise been secured. Under the existing war conditions building has been extremely difficult and these boards have earned the especial thanks of their respective communities.

Churchill County Eagle February 2, 1918

Hazen School