Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-01-07
EXPENDITURE OF 100000
In Addition to the New High
School Building.


tories.
It has often been asserted during the
past few years, by persons fully qualified
TO Judge, that "Belows Falls has not felt
the hard times" and perhaps nothing more
clearly substantiates this claim than the
towns building record, writes the Bellows
Falls correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican
Each of the past five years has seen
more new buildings erected and a larger
amount invested in them and in improve
ments to others than its predecessor, and
the one about to close is no exception.
During the wear 46 new residences and one
business block have been erected or are in
nr1cess of construction, making new homes
for II families. One mill, one wood work
ing shop and a cheese factory have been
built. giving employment to additional
men and thereby increasing the population
and adding TO the general prosperity OF the
place. With scarcely an exception, the
tenements in town are occupied, and al
most invariably the builder of a new house
has applications to rent his property long
before it is completed. Without including
the new High school building, the cost of
which was included in last years summary,
a conservative estimate of the amount in
vested in building and in repairs and i'm
provements during the year will 60 above
100000.
/ Citizens point with pride to the new
High school building, which during the
summer received its finishing touches, and
was ready for occupancy with the beginning
of the school year in September. The
building occupies position 100 feet back
from School street, at the corner of Cherry.
1t is built of brick, and has three stories
above the basement. 1t cost upward of
$4,000. 1t has frontage of 106 feet with
a depth of 80, besides wing 30 by As In
the rear. A tower OF feet high surmounts
the front of the building. The basement
walls are of granite, with heavy, segmented
arches over the windows, and the trim
mings of the superstructure are of terra
Gotta. The main entrance is through the
tower. the base of which forms a large YES
tibule, in which are placed steps leading
from the ground to the main corridor. An
other entrance is from the Cherry-street
side. On the first floor, beside the large
corridor. cloak-rOOms and teachers room,
are six class-rooms for schools of the lower
grades. From the main corridor two
broad staircases lead to the second floor,
where is the large High school room, with
three rectation-roOms, principals room
and metaphysical and chemical laboratories.
The main room receives light from three
sides. Above this the third floor remains
unfinished, but is designed for commo-
dious audience hall with room for stage
and dressing rooms. The interior of the
building is finished in natural ash, and the
floors are of hard pine. All the rooms are
wainscotted to a height of five feet, and
tl.oN -, Of Ento
The ceilings are white, of the same mate
rial. All the school and recitation rooms
have natural slate blackboards. The base
ment contains, beside the heating and ven
tilating apparatus, four play rooms, gym
nasium rooms, cloak-rooms and storage
rooms for bicycles. The grounds are sur
rounded with the curbing of Dummerston
granite Charles w. Buckham of Bur-
lington was the architect and the contrac-
tors were Buchanan, Witherbee IL Kings
ley.
The building committee chosen by the
town were Judge l.. NJ. Read, S. T. Coy,
John T. Moore, Barney Cannon, jr., and
F. G. Pierce.
AS usual the paper manufacturers have
added to and improved their plants, the
principal undertaking this year being the
building and equipping of new mill by
the Fall Mountain paper company, for
coating paper. This has a capacity of $50
reams a day. The second floor of the Of
fee building has been remodeled and fitted
into offices, sleeping-rooms and bathrooms.
A large addition has also been made to the
building containing the Nos. 4 and paper
machines, the increased space enabling
them to add to these machines eight and
four dryers, respectively. The facilities of
this company will be increased next year
by the addition of another large cylinder
machine, the foundations for which are
now being laid. New machinery has been
added, and other minor improvements
made, as is the case with most of the 9TH
er manufacturers. The Fall Mountain
company alone has expended upward of
100000.
A notable addition to the business blocks
of the village is the one built by G. F.
Maynard on Rockingham street. This is
of brick and contains two stores on the
ground floor, with offices and tenements in
the upper stories; $4,000 was invested
On Russell street Herbert E. Cox has
built and equipped woodworking shop
at an expense of $4,000, and the cheese fac
tory built on Wells street by the Boston
dairy company cost $4,000. On the newly
opened Morgan lots Clinton Hatch has
built $500 house, and Fred E. Paul a
$4,000 one. A house built by John Splan
on Atkinson street cost $4,000; Lawyer II.
D. Ryder has one costing $500; Frank
Landon $1,000 one, and large barn
built by George C. Sabin to replace the
one recently burned will cost $500. On
Hyde street cottages have been erected by
E. b. Aumand and T. Roy costing $1,000
each; one by E. Boucher for $1,000, and
one by Fred n. Young for $500. John
E. Brosnahan has completed a $500 resi-
dence on Centre street, and on Brosnahan
street has under way six $1,000 cottages
On Wells street Alfred Young has built a
$1,000 cottage. David Savage has about
finished a three-tenement house on Will
liams street costing $4,000, and Michael
Diggins has expended S400 in repairs and
a new l. to his residence.
Mrs. Joseph White has enlarged her
Russell-street home at an expense of
$500, and on Underhill court w. L. Gid
dngs has under way $4,000 tenement
house and l., d. Lockwood has completed
$500 cottage. John II. Hassett has
erected $500 house on Green street, and
on Cherry street Barney Cannon, IT,, has
built house costing $500; Dennis Fiavin
one costing $4,000 and Henry b. Fitzslm-
mons an apartment house costing $500.
On the new Hapgood place George f.
Page has erected a $4,000 residence, and
II. L Blood and Malcolm Finlayson houses
costing $500 each. Joseph McGreen has
a new tenement-hOuse on Kerry avenue in