The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-15
PROPOSED BUILDING
THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
FOR THE NEW BUILDING
ARE ALL READY.


II provides for a central portion of
a high school building. The building
will be complete so far as il goes and
will be made substantial and perma-
nent.
1t will be so constructed that addi-
tons can be made to il. should future
occasion require. without material
change or expensive alterations. 1t
is not expected that it will be neces-
sary to build any extensions for a
number Of years TO come. 1t is their
purpose to place the new building
just east OF the present building and
near enough to ii to have an enclosed
passage way between them. This
would make them one building 10 all
intent and purpose. 1t is not their
intention to change the old building
in any way except TO connect ii with
the new one and 10 place the boiler
for heating the new building in the
basement of the old one.
In making this proposition the
board wants ii emphatically under
stood that the new building is not 10
supplant the old n or to provide
room for any work that can now be
adequately accommodated in the old
one.
The new building will provide for
nothing that is already provided for
in the old, but that il does provide
for the things needed that are not
contained i'm the old one.
The old building will still be used
to its full capacity, but not to its
o~vercrowded capacity as it is at pres
ent.
The new building will provide two
laboratories in the third or roof
story; three r~eeitations in front on
the second story; office rooms, read.
ing and library room in front on the
first floor; a room for the fans and
heating apparatus, a boys dressing
room and a girls dressing room in
front in the basement; an assembly
room with a stage at n end and
some recitation rooms at the other
end which can be opened up, thereby
converting the assembly room into
an auditorium, and a large general
purpose room in the basement under
the assembly room to be used for
social gatherings, physical culture ex-
ercises, m and for farmers in
stitute work. In all these will be
eleven additional recitation rooms.
The building will be practically fire
proof. There will be n main front
entrance, and two corridors, one each
on the first and second floors running
east and west. These are connected
with all the rooms in the new build
ing and with the old building by two
massage ways by doors and stairways,
making a very convenient plant. In
the basement and on the first and
second floors there will be separate
closets for the girls and for the boys.
This would do away with outside
closets and provide toilets for both
buildings.
One of the %perplexing things about
this old building is the problem OF
ventilating ii. The original plan for
doing so has been greatly d~isarrang-
ed, and the greater portion OF ii has
no ventilation at all other than what
is received through the windows.
Being crowded to more than twice its
capacity, and having to open windows
so much makes conditions unfayor-
able for work and study and for the
health Of the students. The same
condition has the effect of greatly in
~creasing the amount of coal neces-
sary to heat it.