The Coconino sun., 1923-08-10

canyon, which separates it from city
recreation park. The building fronts
| the end of Sitgreaves, on the other
| end Of which stands the normal school
In the basement are automobile and
machine shops, with adjustable rum
way platform on which to run ma
chimes in and out, lowering them to
| the main floor two feet below when
| desired, or, with the platform up, glv-.l
ling room to work beneath the car, 4
\ Next to this room is the rest Of
/ the manual training department, IN
| which there is a lecture room, tool
room, woodworking room, the latter
/ having connected with it glue room
and a dust-proof paint and varnish
room.
| The domestic science department IS
] also in the basement There are sew-a
/ ing and cooking rooms, the latter with
all equipment for "a students prac-
tically in, place.
Upstairs are the other class and
| study rooms. Flanking the main en-
1 the superintendent's outer and inner
offices and on the other side separate
rest rooms for teachers and pupils.
In the class rooms everything is
/ light, airy and sanitary, The black
/ boards. are Of slate. Most of the
/! rooms have roomy closets, with fix
/ lures, such as drawers, cupboards and
shelves all built in
i The physics and chemistry rooms
have common lecture room between,
arranged TO darSen at will so a pro-
!, lection lantern may be used.
4 Boiler and fuel room is in the base
4 ment under the auditorium. An 500
H gallon tank will furnish hot water.
Il The auditorium, with its 30-foot
H ceiling, fine stage, handsome windows
n and general proportions is arranged
f With an eye both to beauty and con-
n venience. Though it will be. used for
u a gymnasium, it IS primarily designed
Ii as an auditorium and no feature necr
Il essary to an auditorium has been sac
Il rificed,
Il The boys and girls have separate
b big shower bath rooms in the base
h Ineylt, each with separate entrances to
n the gymnasium above, to the main
81 school and to the outdoors. Auditor
n iuin floors, both main and balcony,
q slope to the front The balcony has
n entrances at either side from the sec
q ond floor, the main floor having an
d entrance from the main building and
& smaller entrances from outdoors at
q either side Of and just in front of the.
ii stage.
81 Stairways are concrete, with cor
n rugatcd steel treads.
Fl Architect ". 0. Wallingford, who
b has given an unusual amount of time
1 to- supervising the construction Of the
building, and who is very proud of it,
and Contractor Agren, who has con-
! scientiously watched and attended to
q every detail of the work, say that
q this building represents more for the
q money than any other building they
/! ever had to do with.
The attention and large amount of
time devoted by School Superintendent
& John @. Thomas and Messrs. v. NJ.
ri Slipher, George 7. Harrington and C.
u B. Wilson of the school board, to in
sure that no essential detail in either
li the construction of the building or its
q equipment shall be overlooked, have
Il won for those gentlemen the appre-
/ ciatfon and gratitude of the parents
& and taxpayers. We have a building
i exactly suited to It's purpose, designed
and fitted up in accordance with the
most modern ideas and which, at that,
Ii represents saving of many tfous-
ands OF dollars under what the tax
payers voted as bond money for its
construction.
! Practically all of the equipment is
q here. Much of it is in place. When it.
h is time for it to be used it will be
ready. And it is some school build
4 ing. s
u Anyone interested IN the new build
81 ing viii be amply repaid for the time
81 taken to step UP there to look it over.