The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-04
BUILDING IS READY
FOR SCHOOL OPENING
Auditorium Seats 700 - In
Basement Is a Gym
nasium

puiib W utet tAt SipWiiS Hceus "
high school enrolment that has increased
: rapidly in late years, will be thrown
open to the students Tuesday morning
Only within the present week has tht
addition, started in August, 1914, reached
completion, so that the public's opportu
nifty for inspecting it has necessarily
been limited to two days, yesterday and
to-day. That the structure is sub
stantial addition to the city's school
system no one will gainsay and inspec-
tion trips through the building by peo-
lple who passed through the entrance for
the first time have been accompanied
by many remarks of complimentary ma
ture. Joined to the older structure,
Spaulding school, by spacious passage
ways, the annex is to be used for high
school purposes alone, although enlarged
opportunities for housing eighth grade
students in the original Spaulding school
are made possible by the addition.
The annex has been erected on site
III iGbi VI Ahc
building. IT extends along Washington
street, where the main entrance is To-
Gated, for distance of "a feet, and along
the school property to the east l22 feet.
With the exception of the south wing, in
which the assembly hall has been built.
the structure is three stories high. Red
brick, with trimmings of Barre granite,
and similarity in architecture have con-
formed the annex to the appearance of
Spaulding school.
Plans were drawn by F. A. Walker Of
this city, with Brainerd g. Leeds OF
Boston, experts in schoolhouse architec-
ture, as consulting architects. w. +.
jackson of Montpelier was the superin
tendent of construction, with II. G.
Woodruff, J. R. Hutchinson and William
ing on the building committee. Alfred
S. Kellogg of Boston was the heating
aud ventilsting architect and the con-
tractors who installed the heating and
ventilation plant represented the Com
monwealth Heating Co. OF Boston. The |
local firm OF Biorn & Carleton had |
charge of the painting and Peck Bros
Co. of Montpelier had the plumbing con.
tract. Electrical fixtures were installed |
by the Barre Electric Co. and the furni.
ture was supplied by n. W. Hooker &
Co. and A. W. Badger & Co., both OF
this city. All who contributed time, la
Dor aud supplies TO the building of the
annex performed their work faithfully
and well
With the elimination of the heating
pla,s fvN,ye h. 81 -. 81
much additional space is avail
able for school purposes. A number of
alterations below the first floor Of spauld-
ng school have opened the way for rooms
hat may be used for lecture purposes,
manual training and domestic science
lavatories and coatrooms for the
yrade students. Ceilings have been
ealed and cement floors laid throughout.
On the first floor Of the old building there
ire provisions for five eighth grade rooms.
ron columns have been substituted for
rick piers in the basement posting.
In the basement of the annex are the
'oiler and ventilating plants, coal pock ]
4, isnitors' room, class rooms, study
ooms, apartments for lavatories and
oatrcoms, shower baths and gymnasium.
iuch might be said Of the heating plant. .
which Is operated in direct conjunction
nth the ventilating system, but suffice 2
90 say that il is a model of safety, !
fhciency and convenience which any city ?
night do well 10 copy. Two six-foot >
oilers are IN the re.proof leating plant. c
.ithcr ono j. capable Of heating the old y
nd new buildings in normal weather .
nd only in extremes viii il 10 necessary v
D opciate both ~ the same time. ID il q
central plant foi the entire building
nd the temperature IN each room may "
? controlled from a switchboard in the .
bling room. The plant occupies only e
ory of the annex. - the space overhead q
left open top rovide light for rooms at iT
70 rear of The old building ami air for Z,
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