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Title: High-school buildings and grounds
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: National education association of the United States. Commission on the reorganization of secondary education
Subjects: School buildings School grounds. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed at grade along the north and south lot lines, accessiblefor general as well as school uses, and in such a position that the lighting ofthe rooms in the old building will not be impaired. The gymnasium is ofstandard size, and is provided with a spectators gallerj% and locker andshower bath facilities for both boys and girls. The auditorium with a seatingcapacity of 750 is placed symmetrically with the gymnasium. A cross corridorhas been carried entirely through the ground floor from north to south unitingthe group. Behind this the manual training and domestic art departmentshave been placed. In the arrangement of the home economies rooms, the cooking room is placednext to the lunch room. The latter is provided with a general storeroom forsupplies. The laundiy is placed in the old building, near at hand, and thesewing room and liousekeeping suite are arranged over the lunch room. Thedivision of the home economics group is, of course, unfortunate and but serves JUNIOR ANNEXES, ETC. 43
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44 HIGH-SCHOOL BUILDIlSfGS AND GROtTKDS. to prove that in an alteration problem tire approach to the ideal is, in manycases, somewhat remote. On the other side of the building there are three shoprooms and a generous room for mechanical drawing. The large rooms in the basement of the old building, entirely unfitted forclasses, can be used for locker rooms and toilets. Tlie removal of the fur-naces gives additional space, allowing the full complement of lockers to beinstalled in such manner as to bring about a logical division of the base-ment for privacy without disturbing the circulation of the corridors. Steam will be furnished from a municipal plant. It is necessary onlyto provide space for the ventilating fans, and this is located central to theenlarged group in the old building.

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