Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-06

On June first ground will be broken
for the new Junior High school which
will be built on the site of the Pleas
ant street school at the corner of
Pleasant and School streets. 1t is eX-
pected that the building will be COM
pleted by the first of January, and it
will be one of the finest looking and
best equipped school buildings in the
State. 1t will be two stories with a
sub basement, only three feet of
which will be underground, therefore
leaving adequate light for the base
ment rooms. The material will be of
construction brick with cast stone
trim and the front will be stately and
|mposing.t
There will be 10 class rooms in the
building all furnished with uni-lateral
light. the latest approved method of
lighting class rooms. Several new
departments will be created. placing
Waterville's educational facilities on a
par with the best.
The dimensions of the building will
be- 1S9 feet on the front with the main
part of the building rs feet deep. The
center of the building which will con-
tain the auditorium on the first floor
and the gymnasium in the sub base
ment will be 81 feet deep in addi
ton to the above and AZ feet wide.
In the sub basement there will be
located the manual training depart
, ment. which will occupy a suite of
three rooms; the Domestic Science
Il IN, ci1ifn of n
girls toilet room with shower baths
and lockers and the boys toilet room
with shower baths. Besides all these
there will be the textile and automc-
bile departments. both of which will
be new departures in the educational
| program of the city. Lastly there will
be the gymnasium, about 50 by As feet
in dimension.
! On the first floor there will be nine
class rooms. the principals room
| teachers room and the auditorium
the latter large enough to seat COZ
people. In the auditorium there will
be a stage 26x14 feet with dressing
rooms at either side. also boys and
girls toilets. This will enable the pu-
their entertainments and there will be
space enough to do this without being
crowded.
| On the second floor there will be 10
class rooms. together with the library
| All of the class rooms are to be 2Sx22
| feet. equippc with wardrobes and hav-
| ing n seating capacity of 80 pupils In
each room. This will make the build
| ing have a seating capacity Of $40 pu-
pills. which will meet the needs for
some time to come.
| Besides the other rooms in the base
ment there will be a boiler room. a
coal pocket and janitor's room. which
will complete the arrangements Of the
! building.
! The building is expected TO cost
about Sl50.000 which will be raised
by a special school tax of three mills
! for five years. Fifty thousand dol.
| lars worth of bonds can be issued
by the city between now and July l.
which with the special tax will give
an income of $4,000 year.
The question of a new junior high
school building has been agitated in
! the city government for a period OF
over two years. but public opinion has
never become crystallized on the sub
ject until this year. Public speeches
have been made, the Rotary Club has
done its part toward helping alonG
the movement and the Chamber of
Commerce has added its strength to.
ward the desired end. The time has
come when 1t was imperative that a
school building should be built. and
Mayor l.. Q. Tebbetts care to the res
cue with a determination to put the
Il ing &C. SIS and recommended a plan
to finance the project, which was
adopted.
Horace True Muzzy is the architect
of the building and i, completing tie
plans. He has drawn the front ele-
walton of the building, which has been
photograph d by the direction OF May
or Tebbetts and will be reproduced for
the Journal
The committee on the school build
ing consisted of Mayor Leon o. Teb-
belts. F. Harold Dubord, chairman of
the board Of education: Aldermen Otto
n. Larsen. Arthur G. Pitcher. Harry A.
Tozier, Cou. cilmen David p. Vigue