The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-02
ANOTHER SPLENDID STRUCTURE.
The sixteenth School District Now Has a
$4,000 Building,

$4,000 Building.
The completion and acceptance by the
board of education of the Jackson school,
in the Sixteenth ward, marks another
milestone in the march of progress by the
city.
The efforts of the board to provide suit
able accommodations for the increasing
army of children cannot be too highly
commended. 1t may seem at first an un-
necessarily heavy burden, but we believe
/ that all right-minded men will, on DELHI
crate reflection, realize that the expense
is warranted. Children will grow and
they must be educated.
The architects OF the city have had hard
problems to solve in order to conform to
the requirements of the board, which
were more exacting and difficult OF
attainment than those of any other
board of education in the west.
Denver boasts Of her schools, both sys-
TEN and buildings. Her system we can
only praise, but her school buildings
would not be considered up to standard in
Salt Lake, with reference to arrange
ment.
/ The Jackson school was built from
plans drawn by Ware & Coonell, under
the supervision OF the boards superin-
tendent, Mr.. Pinney. 1t is built of pressed
brick with red stone trimmings, is stu
ated on First North between Sixth
and Seventh West streets, and
contains fourteen school rooms.
/ Its outside dimensions are 135 feet long
and 105 feet wide with ceilings IA feet
high in the first and second stories and a
basement under the entire building 1C
feet high. In the basement are the boiler
room, toilet rooms for girls and BOYS.
fan room for supply air, hot or cold in
winter or summer respectively, play room
store room and two class rooms.
The heating apparatus is combination
of the direct and indirect systems OF
steam heating aided by a fan driven by an
engine to force the air into the rooms and
out through suitable ducts.
On entering the building through an
arch II feet wide, of red stone, resting or
two massive pillars, one notices the COM
mendable feature of all steps being under
cover, an excellent precautiou to avoic
slippery and dangerous ice covered steps
in winter
The yestibule is eight feet by thirteen
feet and has a tiled floor and a frescoec
ceiling. Passing through two pair oil
double glass doors, the entrance hal
thirteen feet wide is entered and nowhere
is there evidence of being cramped fol
elbow room. Up five steps and through
two pair of double doors, fight of ter
steps is reached, which leads to the mair
corridor, seventy-six feet long anc
twenty EIGHT feet wide, with octagona
ends, it length being parallel with The
long axis of the building.
On the way it is noticed that the door,
ali swing out, wise precaution in case O
panic from any cause. The rear en-,
/ trance is duplicate OF the front, botl
being to the right of the centre of the
long side of the building. This arrange.
ment is good. in that it does not bring
them opposite, thus avoiding direct anC
strong current through the building dur
ing wind storms.
and two rooms 25x45, al of them oblong
with the teachers desk at the end near
est the corridor door, and so arranged
that the light comes from the left AMI
and rear OF the pupils, an arrangement
that high authorities recommend TO ayois
myopia.
Each class room has two cloak halls
with q window in each insuring ampl,
light and ventilation for these and tn.
main corridors which are connected witt
them by archways.
Over the entrances are a principal,
office, teachers room and two recitation
rooms, each 19x22 it., accessible from the
stair landings and separated from tn,
stair hall by ground glass partition.
The seating capacity of the building i,
500, which VIII be ample for some time II
come. The contract price was S45, 600
and the extras about S, 900, the larges
part Of which was owing to the soft ma
tnre of the soil which necessitated extr:
foundation.
The inside woodwork throughout il
southern yellow pine, finished in oil
showing the natural grain of that beauti
full wood, and altogether the board hav
a building Of which they and the tax
payers may well be proud.