The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-04-05
REGARDING HIGH SCHOOL
OMAHA ARCHITECT ANsWE RS
QUESTIONS OF BOARD.
HE ADVISES A NEW BUILDING
Says That " Norfolk Wants to Recon.
struot Old School for Grammar
g, Building, Later to Erect High School,
Present Foundation Would Do.
IlTrom Wcdncsdny's DnIly,l

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| The following letter, received by
the board of education last week, and
touching upon the matter of school
buildings, is today made public by the
board OF cducatlon:
| Omaha. Neb.. March 20. l907--Mr
III. j. Cole, President Board of Educa
ton, Norfolk, Neb-Dcar Sir; Refer
ring to the visit of my Mr.. Salisbury
To your town on Saturday In regard
to your proposed new high school
building, will say;
Below find estimates you asked for;
| Cost of reconstructlng from present
foundation up, including heating,
plumbing, electric wiring and black.
boards, $32.200,00. ... .,.
Cost of reconstructlng building from
second story up, $20.13000.
| Salvage from the foundation, $500.
Salvage from second story $l12500.
Total foundation and brick work en-.
tire, $3,290,00.
Cost of building the Blair school at
this time, including heating. plumb.
ing, electric wiring and black boards,
$3S, 100000.
Looking at the proposition from n
broader standpoint the question Is,
will Il building reconstructed either
from the second story the first story
or the foundation be good building
when finished?
Mr. Salisbury showed me n sketch
of your building and have a good
idea of It.
want to say omphntically that on
your present foundation you can not
construct a modern school house for
the reason that
First-New foundations and new
nues, two for each room about feet
by 3 feet each, would have to be
built for heating and ventilation.
/ These ilucs by reason of the plan
of your building could not be located
so as to do the best work.
Second-The left hand wall of each
school room would have to have about
= 10 square feet of glass. If that many
windows are inserted In the wall II
I would effect the foundations and the
corners would probably 90 down
-Wardrohes should be along
the exterior wall and should have eX-
terror windows and this would be inn
possible In your present plans.
There should be one wardrobe I'M
mediately adjoining each room
| Fourth-Your rooms are all bad
size.
Fifth-The blackboards space in
your school rooms would be bad A
modern school house should have the
front wall reserved for blackboards
exclusively without any ilues, closets
or interference because that Is the
only blackboard the children can see
. SiXth-A modern heating and venti
latipg apparatus requires great depth
S of boiler room because most of the
heating coils are in the basement
I None of your rooms would be deeI
-, enough for a boiler room.
Seventh-A modern high school
building should be divided in two as
to the sex
The girls should have one stairway
i exclusively leading to the toilet rooms
4 in basement and TO their play ground
t and the boys should have one stair
+ way exclusively. From these stair
ways both the building and the play
v ground should be reached with ease.
. Eighth-You have not chimney
large enough.
Ninth-Outside basement openings
would have to be broken for the heat
ing and yentilating apparatus.
n Tenth-The heating and ventilatine
s apparatus would be awkward PROPOSE
a lions as your building Is planned
VI These of course are trifiing matters
, and they and others constitute the de
Of tails of modern school house
Il 1t would be money lily spent to at
| Itenipt to use any part of the present
! building even IL you could save one
half the cost of new building
There would be no credit in 1t fol
1any one and in few years your board
4 would be heartily condemned for the
action.
If you could, however, reconstruc,
the present building for grammar
r school with a view OF building high
school In the future say in five or ter
i, years, that would be another PROPOSE
y ton, You might then cheaply recon
9 struct this building and call it poo
8 building putting In such heat anC
ventilation as Is possible and give 1
as near the required regulation o
o light as is possible, have the ward
Il robes the best you can and get along
d But You make great mistake If you
I. will attempt to make out of the pres
= ent ruin a high school building which
. is worthy of your town
u Towns like Blair, Fairbury, Has
e tings and other towns have set higl
II level for school houses.
n Nebraska City is voting bonds TO
o building to cost about $65,000.O0 ant
v | don't believe your town wants I,
g take a backward step
% If you build you should build an as
- sembly room for about twenty-five o
20 thirty more seats than you have pu
pills.
n The Blair might not be large enoug
n for you.
Ie You can find full description G
the Blair building in Fowler's yearl
report when he was superintendent c
schools of Nebraska.
| VnnrG firmly