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| Cost
Class of Building | Cents per
| Cubic Foot
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Small frame buildings, costing from $800 |
to $1,500 | 10 to 12
Frame houses, 8 to 12 rooms, costing from |
$1,500 to $10,000 | 12 to 15
Reinforced-concrete mill buildings | 10 to 14
Brick houses, 8 to 10 rooms | 15 to 18
Highly finished city dwellings, brick or |
stone | 20 to 25
Schoolhouses, brick | 12 to 20
Churches, stone | 20 to 40
Office buildings, well finished | 35 to 50
Hospitals, libraries, and hotels | 35 to 50
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Table I shows the approximate cost per cubic foot of various kinds
of structures. In computing the contents of a building, there is no
uniformity in practice, but no great error will be made in figuring the
solid contents from floor of cellar to ridge of roof.