Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-16
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
TO FACE REES PARK
Lots Bought and Plans
Have Been Accepted.

The new High School building is tc
be built on Elm avenue facing Rees
Park on the Holt and Larkin lots, and
the children will use the five acres oi
Rees Park as their play ground
This was finally settled yesterday
when the Board of Education met at
the City Hall and confirmed the rec
concentrations of it's special commit
tee, composed of Messrs. Dodson
Hooper and Miller, favoring the pur-
chase of the Holt and Larkin proper
ties. These two lots have an eastern
frontage on Elm avenue of 1853 feet
and a depth of 200 feet They were
the lots originally selected by the
school committee of the City Council
which secured an option on them at
the time. The price for the two prop
critics is said to be $3,S0O There is
a one-story frame dwelling on the
Larkin lot. which can probably be sold
and reduce the cost of the lots some
what
The selection of the site will prob
ably give general satisfaction. There
were one or two other desirable loca-
tions suggested, but the Rees Park
site is undoubtedly the most popular
and seems to offer the most advan-
tages 1t is doubtful if the Board
could have made a selection that
would more generally have met the
public's wishes.
The plans for the High School
building have also been adopted by
the Board of Education. They show
dignified building as to the exterior.
and an interior replete with conve-
niences and admirably adapted in
every way for its purposes.
The floor plans for the building
show that one enters from a porch
with four large columns, into a main
hallway, II feet wide, on the right of
which is a room for the principal
and on the left a similar room for
the Board of Education. On either
side of these is a class room, 24x3O
feet in size, with a commodious cloak
room attached
At the rear of the entrance hall is
the main corridor, running the entire
width of the building, with entrances
at each end for the children. This
corridor is fourteen feet wide From
it the stairways lead to the upper
floor
At the rear of this corridor is the
main auditorium, 50x70 feet, in the
clear, with the stage and two dressing
rooms at the rear The auditorium
reaches from the ground to the roof
of the building, and beside the floor
space has large gallery adding con-
siderably to it's seating accommoda-
tions. There is also a class room on
each side of this auditorium, 24x3O
feet in size, with cloak rooms, giving
four large class rooms on the first
floor.
On the second floor, in the front of
the building, are two class rooms, 24x
80 feet, with cloak rooms attached,
and between them laboratory % IL
KIT feet, which can be utilized as a
class room if required. To the rear
of the main corridor are two class
rooms, of 24x30 size, with cloak
rooms. The gallery of the auditorium
is entered from the main corridor on
this floor
In the basement are the toilet
rooms, furnace and fuel rooms, etc.
AS designed the building contains
eight large class rooms, the Iabora-
tory, the great auditorium and the two
offices, with all of the necessary cloak
rooms.
Bids will be asked for as soon as the
architect, Mr.. T. F. Lockwood of Col
umbus, has completed the specifica-
tions. 1t is believed work will begin
on the building by the middle of Oc-
tober.