The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-12-10
BUILDING PLANS
ARE ADOPTED
BOARD OF EDUCATION ACCEPTS PLANS
OF FORT WORTH ARCHITECTS.
Largest Normal Building in State will be
Erected for West Texas State
Normal at Canyon City.

tion, the State Board of Educa
tion last Saturday selected plans
for the main building for the
West Texas State Normal which
has been located at Canyon City
A number of plans had been
submitted by various architects
and, from reports coming from
Austin, it appears that the
Board had some very elegant
designs to select from. Waller,
Shaw e. Fields of Fort Worth
were finally awarded the con
tract for the plans and they have
promised to have the plans ready
at once so that the contract for
the main building may be let by
the Goth of this month.
While plans of the building Sc
lected have not as yet been sent
to this city, reports state that
the building is to be three stories
in heighth with thirty recitation
rooms, two large lecture rooms,
an auditorium 100 by 100 feet
with a seating capacity of fifteen
hundred people. 1t will also in
clude a gymnasium, fifty by one
hundred feet and a swimming
pool of like dimensions.
The outside architecture of the
building will conform to the old
style of Texas architecture,
namely, the Mission style and
the perspective presented shows
the building to be one of the hand
soonest public buildings in the
state. The State Board decided
upon this class of architecture
because of the fact that the build
ing of this institution is such
that it is intended to make the
entire plans for the buildig and
grounds conform to Texas ideas
and to Texas ideals.
AS above stated it is the in
tention of the State Board to let
the contract for the construction
of the main building by the Goth
of this month so that the actual
work on the building may be be-
gun early in January. The State
Board also announces that it is
the intention to have the build
ing ready for occupancy by Sep
tember first of next year so that
the school may open in the early
days of that month.
Those who submitted plans for
the building were George Bur
nett of Amarillo, Waller. Shaw
& Fields of FIT. Worth, Henry 7.
Phelps of San Antonio, c.. Fl.
Page & Bro. of Austin, Scott &
Pierce of Waco, Thompson &
Harrison of Dallas, j. Ira Jones
of Lawton, Okla, Barry H. Hill
of Plainview, A. O. Watson of
Austin and K. G. Kirsch of st.
Louis.
Never in the history of the
state has there been such good
opportunity for the State Board
to select a corps of teachers
which will compare with the
greatest teachers educational
institutions of the United States.
Applications are being made by
some of the best known educat-
ors for the various positions in
the faculty and the Board will
oe enabled to secure the very
best teaching talent for each de-
partment. The selection of the
faculty, however, will not be
made until sometime during the
spring, after which the definite
advertising matter will be issued
and sent to the various persons
inquiring about the Normal.
Every day there comes to the
hands of the Secretary of the
Commercial Club inquiries about
this new state school, people
who desire to know all about the
course of study and when the