The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-14
|DILWORTH
TO BUILD
A SCHOOL
Local Architects Awarded
Contract of Preparing
Plans and Specifi-
cations.
RAPID ADVANCE OF SEASON
Continued Evidence That
This Year Will Be One
Of the Best.
RAPID ADVANCE OF SEASON

Ashelman and Gage have Just been
Iawarded the contract for preparing
the plans for a $4,000 school house
at Dilworth. MINI. 1t win be a COM
bined high and grade school and with
the high basement will be practically
three stories in height. Construction
will be semi fireproof. brick walls and
cut stone trimmings.
The building will contain six class
| rooms. recitation and high school as
| sembly rooms. library and superin-
| tendent's office on the upper floors. On
the first fooF viii be located the man
ual training, agriculture and domestic
science departments: also gym
nasium. which will be equipped with
locker and shower bath rooms.
Work on the plans is well under
way and they viii be ready for ac-
ceptance about May I.
Plans for the McGrann- Reynolds
fruit house will be placed on the
The building win be located on the
Northern Pacific right-of-way facing
Front street between Third and
Fourth streets. 1t will be Of brick.
| mill construction. and will cost ap-
proximately $4,000.
Several novel features are provided
in the plans, including a banana stor-
OF fruit will be carried from the cars
on an overhead track directly into one
| of the storage rooms. The fruit Is
moved on the track from one room
| to another as desired. Heating and
refrigerating systems are so regulated
that any temperature may be had
within ten minutes.
Another novelty is the system OF
handling nuts which will be stored in
five bins on the upper floor. Chutes
extend to the basement where they are
provided with oscillating scoops for
| convenience in packing the nuts for
| shipment. ss.-...-
Commodious receiving and shipping
platforms are provided and the build
| ing will be equipped with d large
freight elevator. The offices, which
will be located on the first floor. Will
be finished in white oak. The storage
basement will contain a tobacco humi-
dor and a candy packing room.
The front of the building will be
faced with rug finish brick and will be
trimmed with cut Bedford limestone.
| When completed this will be one Of
the best arranged and equipped plants
in the country.
Architect w. D. Gillespie has COM
pleted the plans for the Bruce high
| school to be built at Clyde, N. D., and
i sets OIL the UIU0 QLIAIS hdFS oSCh AOA
warded to the board and to the differ
ent exchanges. Bids will be opened
| on May s.
This building will be three stories
in height and will cost about $780,
600. The basement floor will contain
/ the domestic science and manual
training departments and the gym
nasium On the main floor there will
| be two class rooms and the cloak room,
lockers, showers and toilets.
On the top floor there will be an
assembly room, large grade and two
recitation rooms and the principals
office. On the landing above the stair
way will be a teachers room with
large closet.
The boiler and fuel room are in a
separate building, reached through the
basement by an enclosed passageway.
/ Mr.. Gillespie's sketches for the
Drake school building have been ac-
cepted by the board and work on the
plans is now well under way. 1t is ex-
pected that the plans will be ready for
| contractors estimates about May i.
Hancock Bros. are finishing the
plans for a home for the First Ma
/ tionaI bank of Tuttle. N. ID. 1t will
be a one-story freproof structure 25x
so feet in dimensions and will be
equipped with a hot water heating
plant Either Hebron or Dickinson
brick will be used and the trimmings
| will be Bedford limestone and Kettle
river sandstone steps and platforms.
The banking rooms will be finished
/ in CHARTERED oak. Foors will be re-
inforced concrete. and the ceilings will
be of steel. - "
Plans. were approved yesterday for
the Equity packing plant to be built
on the Sheyenne river at an estimated
cost of 100000. Specifications will
now be completed and bids will be
invited. The main building and power
plant will be constructed of reinforced
concrete and will be absolutely fire.
proof The Packers Architectural and
Engineering company Of Chicago, pre-
pared the plans for the plant.
BUILDERS EXCHANGE NOTES.