The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-01
THE NEW sCHooL-HoUsE.
Ground to be Broken To-day-To be
Finished by Next January.

Ground to be Broken To-day-To bt
Finished by Next January.
The contract for the building Of the new
Henry street school-house has been awarded
TO A. ]. Aylesworth by the board Of educ
cation, through the committee appointed tc
decide upon the bids The building is to be
completed by Jan. !, 1892.
/ Mr.. Aylesworth will begin the work q
excavating for the building to-day. The
work will go steadily ahead this summer
and the contractor guarantees its COM
1 pletion by the time specified.
The new school-house will be a very
handsome building, and will be quite an ad-
| dition to the southern portion of the city.
1t will be the largest and handsomest
building in that section. The site
fronts 800 feet on Henry street, &C upying
the whole block between Whitaker and Bar
nard streets. The building will be in the
middle Of the lot aud will have a front Of
| l40 feet on Henry street, by an extreme
depth Of 20 feet. There will be a space Of ten
feet between the building and the street
The architecture will be very simple, the
building resembling an inverted +. The
plans were drawn by @. l.. Norrmanu
of Atlanta and are very complete. Ths
building is in three sections. the middle Sec
ton rising up TO hight OF three stories and
the wings upon each side to hight of two
stories each. 1t will be built of brick. with
quarry faced Stors mountain granite and
terra Gotta trimmings, presenting a very
handsome front. Wide stone steps will lead
up IN the main entry way, which is about
twenty feet in width.
At the top of the building will be tower
with hight Of seventy feet from the
ground.
There will be two smaller entry ways,
enc for the boys aud one for the girls. The
building will have eight large class rooms,
four upon the first and four upon the second
floor, 25x96 feet each, with cloak rooms
connecting with each room aud also con-
Meeting directly with the main hallway.
There will be teachers room upon each
floor also.
The third-story OF the middle section will
be an exhibition hall, 51x69 feet, with plat
forms and dressing rooms. The ceiling Of
the hall will have hight of 20 feet
and the ceiling of the class
rooms will be Is feet in hight. On the
ground floor will be the janitor's room, and
on the top floor the principals room. The
building will De steam-heated and the rooms
will be fitted with gas fixtures in case the
board should wish to use them for a night
school at any time.
There will be twentv-three rooms in the
building in all, and it is estimated that it
board Of education is now renting two
buildings in the southern portion Of the
city, and as these will be abandoned when
the new school-house is opened
it is estimated that there will
be sufficient applications for admission
70 fill it the first term The lot is sufficiently
large to admit of the erection of large
building upon each side of the building at
present contracted for, 10 case this should
ever become necessary. This could easily
be done, the building having a space of
eighty feet front upon each side of it.
1t is q fact that this is the first school
building erected In Chatham county for
white children the cost of which will
be betrayed by the county. all the
others having been donations or
requests to the school board by
private individuals or organizations
For this reason probably the commissioners
intend to make good piece of work of it.
The building, when completed, will cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000. The lot cost
81 300, but its present value is about SIS, 900.
When the building is completed the lot and
building will be worth conside rably over
$50 ODO