2764 Report of Committee on Proposed New High School Building, September 21, 1901

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l i recitation and class rooms are 23 x 27. All are Iz feet high. The ducts or flues, and the foul air is withdrawn and forced through former will seat easily, at desks, 40 pupils (the number recom- separate flues to the atmosphere outside by the direct radiation mended), each, and 45 or 48 if the desks be arranged as near of steam coils inserted in them. In the corridors will be ordinary together as is often allowed. steam radiators, and in a few other places heat will be supplied by g direct radiation. No method of ventilation can be quite so effective The two smaller rooms, intended for either class rooms or recitation rooms, will accommodate 24 desks. It will thus be seen as a blower system operated by mechanical or electrical power; that the minimum seating capacity of the building in class room but this costs much more to install originally, and is more expensive service is 288, and more than 300 could be received if occasion to maintain ; and the one proposed not only meets the full approval should require. of the State authorities but follows the scheme of ventilating now The present High School with a membership of Ioo strong in most general use in school houses and other public buildings. may be suitably arranged by its four classes and seated in three Following are examples of schoolhouses that use it : of the larger rooms (taken on either the first or second floor as Boston, (nearly all) Somerville Roslindale may be preferred), and one of the smaller rooms, leaving the other Roxbury Southborough Winthrop of the two 23 x 27 rooms on the first floor available for separate use Stoneham Brighton Newton in recitation work. For some time, therefore, the remaining three No. Adams Fall River Cambridge of the larger class-rooms, and also one of the smaller ones, may be Arlington Heights Milford Malden utilized for the two grammar grades and the primary school pro- s Belmont Leominster Westfield posed to be detached from the Hancock School and installed in the Brookline Newbury Beverly new building temporarily. Quincy Winchester The basement space, save that required for boilers and fresh ( The cost of the building constructed as planned, including air closets, forming part of the heating and ventilating system, and plumbing, heating and ventilating, electric wiring, tables and for ample coal bins sufficient for a year's supply, has been left as fixtures in the laboratories, rough grading, architects' commission open as possible, inasmuch as a proper disposition of it may be and everything outside of such new desks and school furniture better determined in the future. The rooms or spaces marked A, as the School Committee may find to be necessary, on occupy- V B, and C, on the basement plan may be utilized in accordance with ing the finished structure, will not, we are assured, exceed $55,000. I such needs as shall arise. Some or all of them might well be used The figures approach very closely this sum. This is no rough for manual training purposes, if hereafter desired. The falling estimate, either by architects or builders; for full and detailed surface of the ground in the rear of the building admits of long specifications of the building, in addition to completed plans, windows in C, which give the room abundant light. Its height have been prepared and submitted to contractors for their bids. is eleven feet, since the floor in this portion of the basement drops The statement which we make of the cost is based upon bids two and one-half feet lower than the level of the concrete in the already received from thoroughly responsible parties;. but they-are front basement. Into the basement at either end are doors opening conditioned upon early acceptance. from out of doors and placed beneath the steps which lead to the Of the $25o appropriation made for the uses of the committee end entrances of the building. the amount expended, exclusive of the cost of printing this In the third story, the central roof space allows a hall about report is about $T85. To Messrs. Cooper & Bailey, whose 44 x 52 feet, exclusive of the stage, the length of the hall extending courtesy and skill have produced the plans and drawings across the building. The finishing of this hall is included in the now in the committee's hands, the town has come under no cost. liability, and no compensation will accrue to them unless the town The heating and ventilating system embraced in the plans is shall proceed in accordance with their plans, employing them as no experiment. Its basis is steam heat. In the several fresh-air the architects, in which case they will receive the usual commission compartments in the basement, the air, thoroughly warmed by of five per cent on the cost of the building. As already said, such steam radiating surface, is supplied to the rooms through brick commission is included in the above statement as to cost. I0 Ii