The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-07
NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
II ,EOPIII PIiNS IILED FOR
% ,>HINGTON IRVING.
~. rurr To cost sdOO,OOO aud Win
,urntturr aud Fixtures sl.IaI, 400
~r,rn floors WIN Contain Every
azure Of Modern High school.

SNYDER. chief architect of the
..r Il Education. has filed plans
..N Washington Irving High
H...h - to lr erected on the east
wing place. between sixteenth
..r..'uth streets. The building
t..a frontage ~ lsl feet on Irving
80 feet ON sixteenth street and
... ...., 30 Seventeenth street and will
.. ..-'- stories high. or IS2 feet from the
rN.. The facade will he Of
with trimmings Of limestone and
Entrances on both streets The
. entrance will he on Irving place
.'H,ro 4 the building. and will he
..ut'd with four large Ionic columns
.. ' each side and two stories high
.... columns Of the same hei ght and
"usCan style ~ architecture will
.u-lt the rest Of the Irving place
....' and sixteen Tuscan columns
e. H.uaWent the structure on each
-'... 'o tho second story. making
...a .Hmrer ~ forty-eight columns orna-
---'ng The building There is to he an
So, .'urt from the second story up for
..ri ventilation.
.r gliding will have eighty-two class
r~ which will accommodate 5000
Tie building will be the most
.rwp."t" me OF its kind ia the city. being
A." u-U"d with u gymnasium. heating and
."r'.a'.HS plant. mezzanine locker gal
.-v a'hs and stock room for the library
. D." basement. On the first floor will
nd. %" entrance hall. assembly hall. dav
.l...' rrinCipa's once. evening school
rn.nA!S ONCE. general Offices, library
'-.rv cInssrooms. bindery. typewriiing
sslesroom. supply rooms and re-
.- -"Oms; thu second floor will con-
..' o." assembly hall gallery, lang,iags
..-,r ms. English Ciassro oms. com
..-...l olas~rooms and typewriting
rr ~s The third floor will he gwen over
.. -"wIuE, dressmakInG and millinery
.'1s. costume design rooms. mathe-
.....- ..assroom and English classroom
". 20 fourth floor will be a nousekeep-
~ demonstration room, domestic sci
.'." looms, gymnasium loC~sr room
t.' try, domestic service room. pupils
20. room and service kitchcn; the 9Th
viii contain a music room. En- glIsh
'.a~- room, lecture room. Ian guaRe class
..'.. laboratories. vivarium. mathemat-
.- '.t-- rooms. pupils dining room and
q. ."r- dining room, the sixth hoor
... nave physical laboratories. lecture
H'n mathematics class room. language
,a~- room, English class rooms general
u ing rooms and music room and
'.' -"venth floor will contain a chemical
.'"ratory, photography room and dark
..fn history class rooms Ian glage class
..'u- mathematics tNass rooms English
...-~ looms. general drawing rooms. gym
- Iu~. baths and lockers The roof
... contain oren air Playground The
ting will In absolutely hreproof
'.-.Ighout. teing equipped with every
'. M d"vie Tor fire protection. and -
.. 10 equipped with four ELEVATOR
'I" school - 10 ls' used both night and
a.F AMI according TO the estimate set
. 'r'1 in the plans filed with the Binding
.''r-r'nent the c,=t Of the building -
..H'"d at s8OO go. with furniture and fix
res Sll3 .iOs. A feature Il the school
% - the salesroom. in which pupils
".rk will ~ offered for sale. house kee ping
G"muustration room and pupils dining
.,Um