The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-08-24
CITY PLANNERS
TACKLE ANOTHER
Harmony Of Buildings in
Civic Center Group An
other Problem Met.
BUILDERS COOPERATE

Another immediate and pressing
problem was met by the city planning
commission in session Friday after
noon when the question of the ma
terial and style of the different build
ings to comprise the civic center group
was discussed by that body, which was
represented by members of the county
board, board of education and archi-
tects as well as others, including Har-
land Bartholomew, city planner, and
his assistant, L. D. Tilden.
Zone reason for the group of build
ings is to increase the beauty and eff
fectiveness of each building by it's be-
ing part of q noble array of buildings
grouped about center with space
sufficient to set off the music" Mr. Bar
tholomew explained. "Where the de-
sign, of these buildings is in harmony
the effect produced is multiplied. /
understand that this is not an easy
thing to do when you have twa such
different buildings to blend as a court
house and high school, but the more
difficult the problem the more credit
there is in solving it,"
Color to be Similar.
Architect Chubb, who has the con-
tract for building, the new high school
told the commission that his work was
limited to a great extent by the
stringent Wisconsin regulations con-
trolling the building of schools.
eve hove found that the Gothic style
of architecture lends itself most sat
isfactorily to the requirements of
school structure" he said, land 1 un-
derstand that the court house is to be
built on Classic style. The two
styles are very divergent, but having
the building similar in color and gem
eral mass will to a great extent bring
harmony"
After an afternoon of discussion
with the city planner and others, Mr..
Chubb announced that he would be
very glad to see what could be work
ed out in classic design for the new
high school to the end that still
greater harmony and beauty could be
achieved at no expense to efficiency
and school requirements. This was
the happy ending of brisk afternoon
in which every group sought to for
ward the center idea and meet obsta-
cles as things to be overcome.
No Solution of Sheridan Road.
The question of widening Sheridan
road was left over for two reasons.
1t was decided that nothing could be
done until the school board had
definitely decided on the number of
rooms needed and the space to be oc-
cupied by the new high school. In the
meantime the engineers department is
figuring the matter of widening Sheri-
dan road from three angles, that is,
widening it by cutting off thirty feet
to the east, second, by cutting off.
thirty feet to the west, and third and
final alternative, cutting off fifteen
feet from both east and west. side.
Roy B. White, chairman of the new
building committee, of the county
board, announced that the board would
stand cut of fifteen feet from their
building site for the widening of
Sheridan road at this point, but could
not stand more without detriment to
the buildings
Lewis Powell, president of the board
of education, and Architect Chubb were
uncertain that they could yield foot
of the new high school site for the
widening of Sheridan road, declaring
that they respected their building
would be "tacked" to the four side
walks of their block as it was.
The matter was laid over for further
action when more complete facts could
be obtained.