Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23

SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN
MAJORITY IN THE WORK
educational Institutions Adding to Dormitory FaciIi.
tles-Nllcr Rloads' Grace Street Building Heads
List i'll Cost-Architccts and Builders Busy


Construction Of school buildings is
coping step with tho erection of
esidenccs. apartment houses and
Their structures IN Richmond and
hroughout the State. and Indications
re- that construction this year Will
-cak the record for many years
Inc nrm OF Charles NJ Robinson,
rch!tccts, reports bids opened last
week for :hc Bay View School in
orfoia County. 100000; Norview
school. Norfolk County. $4,000:
8'hurchland. Hickory. Bowers nm
nj "ast Norfolk. tho mouc 10 cost
125,00o; Primers Point Sch COL. s20.-
90, and the Suffolk High School.
80, 900
Work Under why I'm Richmond.
Under construction In the city of
Htichmond are the following: George
Sythc Junior High School, East
liarahail street. 100000: Forest nm
3chooi. $4,000: Maury School. 500
1t0; Armstrong School. $500. 900. Ma
Hon School, $4,000. and additions TO
he william Fox school, 100000.
y Work Is also under way on the
Barton Heights NJ. L. Church. 1885,
zoo; the Gintcr Park ". z. Church.
$4,000. and addition to the Jenk ms
Book Bribery. $4,000.
In Elizabeth CITY County the fol-
owing schools are under constitute
ion: Armstrong School. $4,000:
2voodrow Wilson School. $4,000:
Tnion street School. $4,000: IIanp-
IAN High School. Si2J,o00 and
8hoobus school. $4,000.
The PortIock school. in Norfolk
#ounty. VIII cost 100000, and work
progressing on the Smithhcld
Wrh = n ri n 70
chool, LuncnburG County. 100000;
he Portsmouth High school, slo,-
90. and "a $4,000 addition TO JET
erson school. IN Portsmouth.
other Construction wOrts.
Mother work under construction In
ludes tho Alumni Hall. IIarrison-
Byrg state Normal School, HARRISON
utirp. $4,000. and Dormltory No. 3.
iarrisonburg state Normal School,
$4,000 inforinary and addition 10
he service building at the Blue
Ridge Sanatoriun. Charlottesville.
olIOOOO: service building At the Ca
lawba Sanatorium. $4,000.
mans under way Include the fol-
VEing:
Unit 80. , - Dormltory No. !.
mdford state Normal School. $4,000:
khenandoah Apartments, HARRISON
burg. 100000. South Boston High
ptchool $4,000: addition TO library Of
fhc College OF William and Mary.
! WILLIAMSBURG. 100000; remodeitnS
,eating plant, College Of William and
tdary, williamsburg. $4,000: addi-
. lon to tho Crewc ". T. Church. sI5.-
90: dorm!,ory 20 Jaennes Memorial
School. Uenrico County. $4,000 col
bred High School. Newport News.
700 900; addition TO Stonewali Jack
High school. Newport News. $780,
90.
During tho week the contract for
Constructing the :l.5t0,oo0 Gracs
street addition 10 the Miller &
shoads department store was award
d 20 the John r. Wilson Company.
4.nd work VIII commence upon the
8tructurc at once. the ground having
8lrcady been cleared.
shrine Temple 10 Cost Million.
! Marcellus Wright and 9. NJ Robin
e. on. architects, are mplcting tho
Slans for the Shrine temple to be
Erected At Laurel and Main Streets.
Richmond, at a cost OF $1,000 900.
Work upon this structure VIII begin
1rly In the fal..
Other big construction work in
Richmond includes the new theater
on iiTbiN street DctW cen
Eleventh. and Eighth; the temple for
he various labor fratcrnitics. the
375G.o00 steel state Office building
which VIII he located in Capitol
2quarc, the temple for lIenrlco Union
Lodge Of Masons to be erected on
North Twenty Street. and the
fcmodclliug Of the Broadway Ma
2lqnal Bank and construction OF an
addition thereto.
Ground has been broken at Hamp-
Itcn-SIdncy College. near Farmville,
Tor a $4,000 science building. while
In other towns ana cities In the state
Dew buildings and additions TO
khurchcs and schools have been COM
l'lcted within the past few weeks.
Architects in Richmond are work.
mt night and day to keep up with
he demands for plans for residences.
3partment houses. stores and other
public buildings. while contractors
Ire busy making estimates on the
t'1ns in hand.