Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-04

The entrance TO the floor above ia bv four
hights Of broad stairs, two near either end of
the building. The hall aud the wardrobes
on the second floor correspond in arrange.
ment substantially with those on the 6Tst
uoor. The High school room occupies the
entire front OF the second story and is spa
clous room % by 81 feet in size The hat
and cloak rooms for the use of the Hiob
school open from this room in the shape of
large Closets which also open into the hall
way, making two additional means of on
trance to or egress from the main room. A
recitation room opens from the room on
either side and there are large closets for the
accommodation of apparatus, library books.
etc. In the rear Of the recitation rooms are
four rooms for the intermediate school. two
on either side, corresponding in size and ar.
rangement with the Grammar school rooms
below.
Every room in the building is well lighted
and every room has an airy, cheerful, com.
modious appearance. What especially strikes
the visitor to the building is the care which
has been taken to properly light heat and
ventiate tho building in every part. The
system of heating and ventilation is founded
on scientific principles and Ia believed to be
the best which it is possible TO secure. As
we have already said, four large ventilAting
shafts run up through the building from base
ment to roof, with one Of the four furnaces
placed at the bottom Of each. From these
furnaces hot air pipes deliver the warm air.
IN large volume, at a comparatively low tenn.
perature, through a register near the top of
each room. This warm air is at once diffused
throughout the rooms, and descending, final
ly escapes beneath the teachers platform
through an opening into the ventilating shaft
and ID carried away, with all the exhalations
from the lungs and bodies of the occupants
into he IL II A.
roof. 1t is believed that the circulation of
air will be found to be constant and uni.
form and that the air throughout the building
Will be changed as often as once in FIVE min.
utes
The taxpayers of the district will have no
difficulty in understanding what has been
done with the $50, 900 voted for this build
ing. From basement to roof it is solid, sub.
stantial, commodious and convenient, and
not dollar has been wasted in useless dis
play. Throughout tho building tho walls are
wainsCotted with brick to height of four
feet. The bricks are painted in their natu.
raj color, and the walls and ceilings are fin
ished with skim" coat of beach sand The
wsrdrobes are of solid ash. The other wood
work is grained and vanished in imitation of
oak. The capacity of the building is for
600 pupils. The broad halls, four broad
stair ways, and entrances at each end Of the |
building, with doors hung to swing outward,
give ample means Of escape in case of fire or
other alarm.
The work of tearing away aud removing
the old buildings is making rapid progress.
When this Is completed and the grading of |
the grounds has been done, the excellent pro
portions of the building will become appar-
emit Its design, both exterior and interior,
reflects credit upon its architect, Mr.. G. A. |
Hines, himself Bratteboro boy and a grad |
uate of the Brattleboro schools. The gentle |
men having the work in charge have been the |
prudential oommttee-H ID. Holton, W. H. |
Collins and L. w. Stoddard, with Jacob Es- |
tey and Mr.. Hines-the latter acting as super. |
intendent of construction. The work of con. |
struction WIS done under contract by Harris |
~ Butterheld-J. ID. Plummer and Il. A. Pei |
lett doing the brick work under a sub. con. |
tra3t. The stating was done by Ryan Bros,
and the painting by VIM. L. Bemis. The |
plumbing is the work Of Armstrong Bros of |
keene, N. H., and was done by the day in or |
der that the committee might be sure of the |
most thorough work in this important partic- |
ular. The cost of the building has been kept |
within the districts appropriation of $50, 600 |
The building, it will be seen, is essentially |
a Brattleboro building, both in design and |
construction. At some early date, as soon as |
the several rooms have been somewhat put in |
order, it will be opened for general inspec. |
ton on a day previously announced. That |
the district will feel real and justihablo pride
in the building and its slightly location and |
ample grounds, there is no room for doubt. |
On our own part wo know OF nothing of the |
kind in New England which excels in COM |
bined beauty and utility our Brattleboro school |
property.