Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-16
PLAN FOR SCHOOL
BOARD GETS sNErcA OF PRO.
POSED NEW WARD BUILDING.
Modern Large Grade School to Be
Erected In First Ward If Bond Is
sue 10 Authorized at Special Election
Next Week-Tentatlve Plan Submit
ted by Architects.

Tentative floor plans for the new
first ward school building. have beer
received by the school board. AT |
special election, to be held Wednesday
Jan. 81, voters Of the city will be asked
10 authorize the board to sell not K
exceed $4,000 worth OF school bond:
10 provide money to build 1t with
Women can vote at this election which
VIII be held at the central fire station
II the plan submitted by lyric s
Chapman, Minneapolis architects, Il
accepted by tho board the building
viii be one OF an entirely new type
locally, 1t is. however, a type that is
now being built in great many cities,
It embodies a number Of modern tea-
lures.
Building Without Basement.
Important among these new features
Is that Il would not have 4 basement,
excepting under q small part Of the
building, and only large enough TO
provide room for venLlating fans and
storage space. Since the building
would be heated by the central heating
plant that heats the high school and
John Chnds buildings, place for a
separate heating plant is not needed.
The central plant IS large enough 70
heat this additional building without
adding any boilers or other equipment.
The proposed building is Of different
shape and instead OF being square II Is
a long, low, two story building, Of two
wings extending at right angles from
Q central portion.
Floor Space Large.
AS proposed the building would race
northeast toward the intersection of
Second avenue and Webster street. It's
general ground dimensions are about
100 feet long by thirty-two feet wide
thru the wings and fifty feet thru the
central portion.
The plan provides for ten grade
school rooms which would accommodate
about $50 pupils. -Four OF these rooms
have been placed IN the wings on the
first hoor and the other six have been
put on the second floor.
The entrance is in the central sec
ton. which provides space on the
ground floor for offices for the princi-
pal and teachers. toilets, a twelve-foot
corridor running the entire length OF
the fOcr ana II play TDOIIl III I-4S SSA-
trail portion 22x60 feet.
Two sets Of stairs lead to the second
floor where space is provided for
corridor. q duplicate of the one on the
first roor toilet and book rooms in
addition to { the six grade rooms.
Wardrobes are provided adjoining each
Of the school rooms. The latter would
be lighted from the west, southwest
and south.
Delay Action on Plans.
No action Will be taken regarding
acceptance OF the plans for the build
ing until after the special election. II
the bond issue Is authorized the board
will at once take steps to get detailed
plans and receive BIDS on the building
can be started early in the spring.
The site, that IS quarter block Just
north Of the John Childs school, will be
cleared and lowered considerably by
grading.
II the building Is built. il viii serve
ut once to relieve the congestion in
some Of the ward buildings. The
pupils Of the John ChiIds school will
be moved into =. and others from the
Rogers and Woodbury. schools trans
ferrod TO lessen the crowding IN those
buildings. with tAS John Childs
building emptied, the eighth grade Of
the high school VIII he moved into that
building. This will take nearly 20o
pupils out Of the high school building
and relieve the congestion IN It.