The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-14
WESTP0INT IN
EXPANSION
$5,000,000 Construction
To Give Academy Need
ed Space
BY CHARLES ROYAL
, United Press Staff Correspondent

WEST POINT, N. Y, July Ia.
(UP)-The U. S. Military Acade-
my is undergoing a "face-lifting"
operation, completion of which
will change the entire physical
appearance of the famous insti-
tuition.
A new cadet barracks, a new
academic building, an addition to
the gymnasium, a cadet armOry,
ordnance and engineering labora-
tories and junior officers quart
ers are being erected in a $1,000
600 construction project. The
buildings will be completed by the
end of 1888.
Five hundred cadets will be ac-
commodated in the new barracks,
which will form right angle with
it's south wing running parallel
with the south wing Of North
Cadet Barracks and its north
wing running parallel with the
gymnasium. Each wing will con-
Sist of a basement and seven
floors. Estimated cost of erection
is $1,0S9, 400.
GOTHIC TYPE PRESERVED
The exterior of the building
will be faced with granite rubble
masonry with limestone trim, and
it's Gothic architecture will coin
eide with that of the North Bar
racks.
The new academic building will
be erected between the East AGA
demic building and the library, on
a site formerly occupied by tennis
courts.
The structure will form an an
gle, one leg of which will be the
East wing, six floors high, and
the other a one-floor parallel to
the East Academic building.
Also of Gothic architecture, the
exterior will be faced with cut
stone ashlar trimmed with lime
stone.
A modern natural and expert
mental philosophy laboratory will
be established in the west wing,
which will be isolated from the
east wing to eliminate vibration.
Estimated cost of the building
is $741, 600.
NEW GYM ALSO
The new gymnasium addition
will form letter T, with q west
wing directly in the rear of the
present structure. 1t will be stu
ated between the natatorium and
the auditorium.
The addition, cost of which is
estimated at $980,000, will be
framed whit structural steel, fire
PROCEED with concrete.
Sixty families will be accommo-
dated in junior officers quarters
being erected in the north end of
the post. ...,...
There will be twenty sets Of
double quarters, five three-family
houses and five five-family
houses. The homes will be two
stories high. Each of the quart
ers will have a baseemnt, storage
space, combination living and
dining rooms, kitchen, front hall,
three bedrooms, two baths and a
maids room. Sun porches will be
built on each of the double-quart-
erS.
HOMES TO BE OF BRICK
The houses will be of brick
supported with structural cinder
blocks and so arranged that fam
lilies will have private entrances.
They are expected to be finished
by November II.
A cold storage plant has been
completed, and additional water
distribution facilies consisting OF
two 5000, 000-gallon steel water
tanks with electrically driven CEN
trifcgal pumps were completed
January IS, 1887.
Plans and specifications for the
Ordnance and Engineering Lab
oratories, which will cost $685.
600, have not been completed.
Plans for a new target range, a
ouartermaster gar age, nd a
freight receiving warehouse also
are being completed.