Evening star., 1922-07-21
PLANS APPROVED
FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Fine Arts Commission Passes
FavorabIy Upon Junior
High Building.
ERECTION TO START SOON
Beautifying of Lincoln Memorial
Surroundings With More Trees
Given Attention.
ERECTION TO START SOON

Plans for the two junior high
schools of Washington, drawn up Dy
Municipal Architect A. L. Harris,
were approved by the Fine Arts Com
mission yesterday.
Building operations on the two
buildings. which will cost in the ag-
gregate 100000 each. will be started
Immediately. since appropriations are
now available for this work.
Two wings. one of which will be
added next year. according to pres,
ent plans. and one of when VIII
be added in the farther future, Will
have an additional cost OF SlOo.O0O
per wing for each school.
Building Plans in Detroit.
The plans for the buildings call
for twelve classrooms in each. and
ten shoprooms, capable of accom-
modating 500 pupils. The real
gymnasium will be in the Wines
of the buildings, which are 3 TO be De
ing assembly hall will serve as an
eXtempore gymnasium.
The assembly hall will have seats
at the rear and balcony. both floors
in these sections being on an ascend
ing grade toward exits. but the hoor
will be clear, so that chairs may be
placed thereon during entertain
ments and exhibitions and cleared
away at the pleasure of the author :
tiles in order TO open a clear neid
for athletic contests. The fixed seats,
when the assembly hall is used as a
gymnasium, will furnish accommo-
dations for spectators.
The buildings each will be 200 feet
in length. $50 feet in depth and nifty
feet tall. The basement floor will be
entirely above ground and class
bot Ia GGSn
ond floors.
Noise to he Avoided.
lesson learned from having class
rooms above and beside shoprooms
in other high schools in Washing
ton stands in good stead with the
junior high school plans. They will
be separated from classrooms by a
wide corridor and will form entirely
distinct units in the same building.
The arrangement of the shoprooms
will be the same as in a factory.
Equipment will be factory type and
the pupils, except for teachers and
instruction, when attending school in
the Junior high schools will be in
exactly the same surroundings that
they would be in factories.
The office of public buildings and
grounds submitted plans to the Fine
Arts Commission yesterday for walks
under the trees bordering the reflect
Visit Lincoln Memorial.
The commission went to the memo
rial to consider various features Incl
dent to the development of that sec
tion of Potomac Park. The commits
sion also considered matters concern
ing the proposed memorial bridge to
Arlington submitted to it by the Ar
lington memorial bridge commission,
going over the grounds in question.
Among other submissions which re-
ceived the consideration Of the COM
mission were an inscription for a
statue of Alexander Hamilton, to be
erected on the south steps of the
Treasury Department. and a prelimi
nary design for a war memorial tablet
for the Agriculture Department. A
ground plan for the monument to the
nuns of the battlefield. at Connecticut
avenue and Rhode Island avenue, was
approved.
Action with reference to a design
for the monument to the unknown
American. submitted by the War De-
partment, was held in abeyance pend
ing the return of the architect of the
amphitheater, Thomas Hastings, who
is now in Europe to receive the gold
! medal of the Royal Institute of British
Architects.
The commission had as it's guests
at luncheon the Vice President and
Mrs. Coolidge. Yesterday afternoon
an inspection trip was made to
posed Rock Creek and Potomac park
way. The commission also inspected
the models of the plan of Washington
of the Senate park commission of
1901, which are in the rotunda Of the
National Museum.