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Figure 4: The school after the addition of a storey (1930) (Archive of the office contract, Municipality
of Palermo).
The Second World War had disastrous consequences for Palermo, the bombings indeed
leaved it with many areas totally destroyed.
The “La Masa” school building was partially destroyed and rebuilt in 1947, as we can
read on a manuscript kept in the archive of the real estate of the Municipality of Palermo:
“…school built in 1928-29, almost entirely destroyed by the war and the jackals .”
The “La Masa” school building has today the design of 1947, with some modifies which
were necessaries for legal compliances.
In 1947 the wooden floors have been replaced with brick and concrete floors, and a part
of the structure with reinforced concrete. The outside ornaments are not longer and the
current appearance of the building is much more austere and simple (see Fig. 5 and
Fig.6).
Figure 5: Façades of the “La Masa” school (after 1947).
