The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-08-09
N0RTnSIDE SCHOOL BUILDING
When Completed Will Be One of the
Most Modern School Buildings in
the Country, Strictly Fire Proof
and Will Cost About $4,000.

When the new school building now
in course of construction on the
North Side is completed it will be
one of the most modern, substantial
and handsome structures of it's kind
in northern Minnesota. The build
ing will contain twelve school rooms,
including the Kindergarten, manual
training and domestic science de-
partments and a play room, which
will be in the so-called basement of
the building. On the first floor
will be the office, stock rooms and
four school rooms, also four school
rooms on the second floor. The
building Is being constructed on a
stone foundation, waterproofed on
the outside and the foundation walls
set on one foot concrete footings.
The outside walls are brick faced
with No. 8 dark brown brick with
raked points; the interior walls and
piers are of solid common clay
brick. The outside perimeter Of the
building is approximately 500 feet.
Steel columns are used throughout
and the floor slabs are of 10-inch
reinforced concrete, designed by c.
A. P. Turner, making the building
practically fireproof throughout.
The floors in the basement room
will be maple and cement in the cor
ridors, while the rooms of the first
and second stories will be maple
with terrazzo in the corridors. The
pronounced feature in the design Of
the building is the arrangement Of
the school rooms, each of which Is
lighted from the rear and from the
left of the student, and theteachers'
desks will be in the front near the
corridors and cloak rooms, some
thing which Is not the common thing
in the construction Of school build
ings. Another unique feature will
be a Kirker-Bender rotary type fire
escape made by the Dow Wire
Works, which will be built as a part
Of the building and carried up above
the roof as a tower, thus giving dis
tinction to the structure. The STAIR
ways will be fireproof, built OF steel
with cast iron rises and treads, and
inserted In the treads will be ut
tie blocks Of asbestos to keep the
pupils from slipping when ascend
ing and descending these stairs.
A complete ventilation system will
be installed which will be manipulate
ed by fan, the fresh air being taken
In through a large brick flue on the
roof Of the building. A vacuum sys-
tenn Of cleaning will be installed.
The building will be heated
throughout by steam from a large
boiler room in the rear. The heat
will be both direct and indirect, and
the fresh air injected into this sys-
tenn by 4x6 fresh air shaft. The
building will have roof similar to
that of the Technical high school
building, and will be trimmed in a
new product of gray terra Gotta,
which sets off the darker colored
brick to very good advantage. The
entrances, Of which there will be
three, will be trimmed in Kettle
River sandstone with glazed brick
In the vestibule.
The building will be faced with
Menominie sand mould brick, the
trimmings and window stools are
Kasota sandstone and the story belts
of terra Gotta. All the material used
in the construction of this building
is the best that can be had, and the
fixtures and school, paraphernaliawill
be selected to conform with the most
modern of school apparatus. A Prick
master clock of the latest type with
q secondary clock In each room, SIM
liar to the one now in use in the
Technical high, will be installed in
this building. All Of the electrical
work In the building will be in con-
duit and in fact the entire system
Of lighting, vantilating and heating