The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-03-31
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
High School Designs Selected
Parker, Thomas & Rice Will
Superintend Construction.

At a recent meeting of the Board d
County School Commissioners, the cor
tract for the plans of the New BOYS Hig
School was awarded to Parker. Thoma
& Rice, of Baltimore.
| The building will be two-storv brio
structure with basement and will fac
| Park Avenue and its axis will lie in Elm
street. The lot on which the buildin
will be placed provides ample room 70 l.
extensions il they are necessary in tn l.
future and the plans lay out tentative de !
signs for the enlargement of the building
There are three points followed in the dc /
sign which have been found to be benef
cial in the design of modern school builoy
ings. These are the light, the size of tn |
rooms and the number of entrance to tn
rooms.
All the class rooms are placed on til
east, south and west sides of the buildin;
and by the arrangement of the desks tn.
light comes over the left shoulder of tn
pupil, thus avoiding all injurious shadows
By the arrangement of the windows, eacl1
room gets some sunlight at some period
of the day.
All the class rooms are of one size
22.6 feet by IS feet and are built to ac
commodate 40 pupils. This size of room
allows plenty of air and light for thd
pupils and affords the proper numbe
which one teacher can well handle. All
the class rooms have two exits into tho
corridor which caves ample room for al
orderly retreat in case Of fire. Through
out the entire building the stairs and TIL
service rooms are located on the mort
side of the building where the light is to,
for fha ~IoccraAt,,c The n
eral plan of the building is in the shape c
an H. The middle partition however.
almost as wide as the two ends. The OBJ,
ject OF this form was to give the requires,l
number of class rooms with the desire,
lighting scheme. On the Park Avenu
side is the main entrance into the frs
floor of the building by flight of step Il
about six feet high. On each side of these
steps are entrances INTO the basement
There is an additional entrance into the
basement in the rear from Elm street \
There will be ten class rooms in tn, 1
building in all exclusive of the two com \
mercial rooms, two manual training rooms 4
A main corridor runs through the entire y
building east and west on all the floors 1
On the right on entering the basement ar !.
the repair shop and storage room. In th.,
east side are located the two manua
training rooms, stock room for the lumbe u
and teachers room, The manual train \
ing rooms are separated by glazed doors !
One room will be used for the bench room
and the other for the drafting room i
West of the entrance is large locke n
room where the pupils will leave thei
wraps, lunch boxes and other things. T.,
will be equipped with lockers which will a
be assigned to the pupils. Adjoining the n
locker room will be an exercise room h
which will serve for play room in bae I
weather and may later be turned into :
gymnasium if it is decided that one is re
quired.
Besides these rooms there are a colo h
storage room and boiler room in the
basement A vestibule leads from the J.
entrance on the first floor into the mair
corridor On the sides of this vestibuls II
are two small rooms which can serve fol
telephone booths or additional CLOAK ri
rooms. On this floor are about six clas: u
rooms. At the east end Of the hall the I
principals Office is located.
On the second floor are located ss
class rooms, and two commercial room.
which have size of ~ feet by 26 feet II
On the west end of this story is the library
a spacious room OF dimensions 22 feel
by IS feet, in which will be placed the s
High School library and where the pupils :
can satisfy their library appetites. A
teachers room II feet bvI2 feet, is also {
provided. The building will have man 0
sard roof adorned by cupola 4
President John S. Newman. of the
School Board, expressed himself as very
well pleased with the design and though
that satisfactory building will be built
He was unable to say when the working /
plans of the building would be ready O
when the work would start He hope.
that it will be ready for occupancy by the
opening of school in September. +
Under the terms of the competition
Parker, Thomas & Rice will receive sixb
per cent of the cost of the building fol +.
their work They will superintend the i
construction of the building besides max
ing the working plans The cost of tn, +;
building is not to exceed S55,ooo. Th,T
three other architects who were awarded (
the special prizes Of $500 each were ii
Henri DeSiborn, of Washington; Hamm,
& Lebor, of York, and Alfred Cookmair, I,
Leach, of Baltimore There were forty {
two designs in all submitted for the ap n
proval of Professor Laird, Dean Of tn, 4
Department OF Architecture of the Uni /;
versIty of Pennsylvania, VINO had charg,
of the selecting of the winners. }
Professor Laird was to receive $500 fol i
his services.