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Next to Phra Sumen Fort is a handsome building, plain but well proportioned and
painted white, built in 1925 as the Wat Sangwet Printing School. This was the first printing
school in Siam, with printing classes in the morning and printing services in the after-
noon. In this way, students learned both theory and practice. The school closed in 1946
to focus on printing services, and it became known as the Kurusapha Printing House, an
imprint that can be found on many scholarly topics about hailand. he school consists of
two L-shaped buildings, the brick structure at the front and a timber structure at the rear,
added in 1933 and made from teak and tabaek. The two-storey brick building, utilising
large windows for optimal daylight, a wide entrance for heavy equipment and bulky loads,
and topped by a flat roof, was designed by a Siamese architect who combined industrial
needs with the residential styling that was then coming into vogue elsewhere in the im-
mediate neighbourhood. The timber building, very attractive when viewed from the little
humped bridge that spans the canal, is reputed to be the largest of its kind in Bangkok.
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