The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-12-13
EVERYTHING READY.
FOR THE ERECTION Or lhE
NEW SCHOOL BUILDING.
The House to be Built OF Gray
Stone, and Work to Be-
gin at Once.


.oon for the schools has been one
hat has forced itself upon our School
BOARD for serious consideration. In
order to provide this room Tor the
continually increasing school popula-
tiou. the Board took the matter IN
hand aboutsa year ago, and secured
legal authority for obtaining the nee
essary funds for the purpose. Inns
done, a proper location was secured
and plans and specifications gotten
up. The plans are the result OF the
combined work of teachers, Board !
and architect and are the best to be
obtained
From the first, the Board deter
mined to have nothing but the best.
and that the building should be OF
brick or stone. General Ayers was
appointed a committee to see what
could be done, and true to his liberal
ideas and native pride, he set his
heart upon gray stone. For long
time the money in hand seemed too
little to cover the cost of stone build
ing. but General Ayers stuck to his
idea with indomnitable perseverance,
and waited for the right man. just
few days since the right man was
found and the good news went out
that the work could be done in stone
for the same that the brick bidders
had asked.
This good fortune came in the per
son Of Joseph Gonano, who Is build
ing coke ovens at Looney Creek, who
has undertaken the stone and BRICK
work. Mr.. Gonano says that he has
plenty of men available for the work.
MANY of these men are skilled work =
men. He has the reputation of being a
first class man in his line. and can
refer to some fine work that he has
done. lie is a man of pleasant adj
dress and has the bearing of man
who means business.
For the finishing, and all work
outside of the stone and brick, except
heating, Mr.. Robert l.. Brown, the
well known contractor and builder,
of our town. mas been secured. Mr..
Brown is man who takes pride IN
his work, and who will give fine
lob. He is personally interested IN
the building of this house, and is will
ling to make some sacrifice in order
to give his community good public
} building. His ambition is noble
one, for it will be no little honor to
have made it possible for his descend
ants to point to the fine school build
ing and say: My father built that
4 or nv grandfather built that.
r The entire cost for building, heat
. ing. plumbing, and furnishing vii
be about. $1,000. This amount
: will include the cost OF the lot. The
y contractors will begin their WORK
i at once and will have the building
ready for occupation by next Septem
: Der, or before.
THE HOUSE.
The prettieSt and best site IN tow
d has been selected for the location o
o this house. The plateau just II
s. front of the old school property, con
lie tanning about three and one hal
10 acres has been secured for the grounds
a The little huts and gardens will al
is be removed, and all the space betwee
the dummy lines" and back
We Bank Street will be fenced in io
pv school grounds. This is a level, cas-
d, ilv drained plat of ground and is til
IN most centrally located in town.
up The material will be, gray Ston'
ax gotten in the Gap, for the walls, an
the best quality of yellow pine f'
= finishing. The roof will be of sla
= and all hardware will be of the be
z quality. Nothing in the way of mi
g terial will be of inferior quality.
The building will contain SIEVE
specially arranged school rooms; OIL
library room, or general meeting ROOF
suitable for a school room i'll case
Is should be needed; one large assemb
room, to seat FIVE or six hundr'
o." people, with neat rostrum; one 9
: fee room, one music room, one a
room; one large room on third foC
~ suitable for gymnasium. In the bas
~ ment will be: Two large play room
one for boys and one for girls, entll
70 lv separate; furnace room, fuel rool
storage room. and good closets. i
sides. there will be ample corridc
If and rotunda. 1t will be in eve
, way model modern school buildir
IL and will surpaSs any other schC
building in Southwest Virginia,
any other in the state OF less tn
double it's cost. 1t will be strn'
,e ure that any citizen may point to wi
pride.
/ In addition to the building, I
&c grounds will be neatly fenced, nice
-, graded, and planted in the fn'
~ trees. DR.. j. w. Kelly, the energ
IL ic President of the Board, will 10
G. after the grading and identifying
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