The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-10-26

Embodied in the PIan-WiIl Cost
Over $1oo,ooo-Mr. Masqueray Is
the Architect.
The Immaculate Conception School,
in course of erection near the new
Pro-Cathedral in Minneapolis, is to
embody the best ideas of modern
school construction and scientific ar
rangement. 1t will be three stories In
height, of reinforced concrete con-
struction with walls of pressed brick.
In color and architectural design it
will harmonic with the Pro-Cathedral,
at the rear of which it will stand,
The building will have frontage of
163 feet along Laurel Avenue; while
the east wing will extend along North
Sixteenth Street, distance of 95 feet.
It's sixteen class rooms will be capa-
BILE of accommodating eight hundred
children. The cost of the building
itself will be $102,000.O0; while the
heating plant, which will serve church
and school, will cost an additional
$4,000.
The ground plan of the structure has
the general outline of a capital l,
the end wings of the building cores
ponding with the cross-lines at the
top and the bottom of the letter.
The four entrances to the school
one in front, another at the rear, and
one at each end-are designed with
special reference to safety in case of
fire or other accidents. Each of the
doorways will be little more than
seven feet wide, and all, except the
one at the rear, will be reached by
broad passages easy of access from
any part of the building.
At the end of a twenty foot walk
leading from Laurel Avenue, flight
of four granite steps will form the
approach to the front entrance. AS
the doors swing outward to receive
the visitor he will enter vestibule
finished with marble wainscot and
terrazzo floor.
Plan of Floors.
Mounting a few steps he will pass
by swinging doors into well-lighted
corridor twelve feet wide and running
the full length of the building. Direct
ly across the corridor an alcove will
lead into the main Office, a room "a
by 80 feet. At the farther end of this
room the doorway in the rear of the
building will open outward upon a
veranda, from which double flights of
granite steps lead downward to the
grounds lying between school and
church.
Returning from the main Office to
the terrazzo floor and the wainscoting
the terrazo floor and the wainscoting
of white tile extending along the pas
sage to the stairway at either end of
the building. Eight doors on each
side of the corridor will open from
the class rooms and their adjoining
cloak room. Each of the class rooms
on this floor will be "a by 80 feet and
capable of accommodating about fifty
pupils. These rooms will be we'll
lighted and the seats will be so ar
ranged that the light will come from
the left of the pupils. This arrange
ment gives to every pupil, whether
writing or reading, the full benefit OF
ample illumination. The walls, too,
will be tinted with reference to the
best effects of color on the eyes. A
cloak room for girls and another for
boys with a locker for valuables will
adjoin each class room.
The corridor will terminate at each
end of the building in a stairway
twelve feet wide, extending from the
basement to the third floor. The steps
of cast iron will have marble
stringer running along the walls of the
stairway below a wainscot of white
tile and the balustrade will be of
wrought iron in plain openwork. The
doorway at each end of the building
will open from this stairway at the
landing between the basement and
the first floor.
The plan of the second floor is
similar to that of the first in the
number and arrangement of the class
rooms in reference to the central cor
ridor.
The library will be situated on this
floor directly above the main entrance.
A balcony will form roof or canopy
over the front doorway. Across the
corridor from the library will be
rest room for the Sisters in charge of
the school.
Gymnasium Hall and Easement.
The third floor will contain gym
nasium hall 62 by IS feet. The cell
ing, eighteen feet in height at the
middle, will slope toward the sides to
a height of eight feet Each of the
arched dormer windows on the sides
of this hall will be nine feet in width
hv Six in height Resides the eymYa-