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Excerpt from West Technical High School: Building and Equipment With an Outline of the Course of Study
The building, in the style of the French Renaissance, is a beautiful structure of dark shale brick, grey stone and terra cotta. The architect, Mr. F. S. Barnum, has succeeded in making this, as is ever essential in a school building, a glass building. The large amount of wall space given to glass, gives ample light without in any way detracting from the appearance of the building. Steel lockers throughout the building take the place of cloak rooms. The corridor floors are models of their kind. The telephone service reaches each room and is so wired that the office may communicate with all rooms at one time. A vacuum cleaning system which extends to every part of the building insures a clean school, free from dust. The boiler room contains a plant with a capacity of six hundred horse power. A complete light and power plant is installed. The fans deliver 171,000 cubic feet of air per minute, this fresh air being so distributed that each pupil is supplied with 54 cubic feet of fresh air per minute. This exceeds the hospital requirement of 50 cubic feet per minute. The air is moistened after being heated so that the proper amount of humidity is maintained. Foul air is taken out by a separate set of exhaust fans.
The general plan of the main part of the building is in the form of the letter E. The ground floor of the building covers about two acres. There are four stories, a basement and sub-basement in the center portion. The other portions of the building are three stories above the basements. The auditorium entrance to building is at the southwest corner. As one enters the center of the building on the first floor are found, to the right, the general and private offices while an exhibition room is on the left. Across the main corridor is the consultation room where teachers may meet pupils and parents.
The corridor running east from the central entrance leads to the general faculty rooms. These are the official home of the faculty. Here are found rest rooms, conversation rooms, and desk room for each teacher. The north wing of the first floor contains the cabinet shops, mill room and finishing room. Drafting rooms and physics lecture room and laboratory are in the corners of the building.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from West Technical High School: Building and Equipment With an Outline of the Course of Study
The general plan of the main part Of the building is in the form of the letter E. The ground floor Of the building covers about two acres. There are four stories, a basement and sub - basement in the center portion. The other portions of the building are three stories above the basements. The auditorium entrance to building is at the southwest corner. As one enters the center of the building on the first floor are found, to the right, the general and private offices while an exhibition room is on the left. Across the main corridor is the consultation room where teachers may meet pupils and parents.
The corridor running east from the central entrance leads to the general faculty rooms. These are the official home of the faculty. Here are found rest rooms, oon versation rooms, and desk room for each teacher. The north wing of the first floor contains the cabinet shops, mill-room and finishing room. Drafting rooms and physics lecture room and laboratory are in the corners of the building.
In the basements are the pattern shops, foundry, forge rooms, machine shops, ' cafe, kitchens, gymnasiums, showerrooms, and lockers, electrical construction department and kilns for pottery. Two mechanical drawing rooms and rooms for the heating and ventilating apparatus occupy the remainder of Space on this floor.
The library floor is the second floor. Grouped around the library are recitation rooms that demand the greatest use of reference books. On this floor are the English, History, . German rooms and the study halls. The middle section of the second floor is devoted to dressmaking, millinery, physi ology and the girls' hospital.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.