Eau Claire High School - Kodak Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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I I - 'P it - 2.....L.-4--.'l,.-T-uTw. TT':i '1'f75-L i HT ' 'T' 's 'xg-'lf'L '4 Q.:- '., ''aikfill-44.3-frf''A'- ---A-..T '-----A-,lirrgzi --'- .. .... . ------- f-- '-'--..l+-..c-,,,z::if1::'-'2.....' ,.., e5.1.u.,,L ,...,..,, lhlk' M2 ..,.. ... ....,..... . Y.. A ..,..... iT -S . ..., ,,,, lb-V qw., . .- f I l . ' I Laying of the first foundations of the New High School Building I I ARCHITECTURAL ARRANGEMENTS OF NEW EAU CLAIRE HIGH SCHOOL I The new building is located facing the east toward University park, two blocks from the Public Library and City Hall, near the downtown district and on the western brink of the East Side Hill. It was planned to accommodate IZOO pupils on the regular seven-fperiod schedule. According to the pres- ent plans the new high school will be ready for occupancy in the fall of l926, and the following will use it: 600 senior high school students, 300 pupils who will constitute one third of the junior high school, and one hundred of the advanced vocational pupils. Since the old building can not be converted into a Junior High School until l92 7, the regular four year High' School will occupy this new building in l926-l927. The ninth grade flfreshmenj will begin under ithe III Junior High School curriculum, however. I If you look at the new structure, you will discover for yourself that the building is being con- structed of red brick and local stone trimmings. It is of a square type, three stories high, with light courts for the auditorium and gymnasium, and court day light for the corridors. The slope of the site per- mits of a forth-story on the west end. It is here that all the special rooms such as shops and labora- tories are grouped. There are to be no basement rooms for ,education. The building is 238 feet in length, 208 feet in width, and 64 feet in height, on the fourth-story side. This plan effects a saving because water, waste gas, Ielectric conduits and flues are in massed stacks while otherwise these would be scattered over a wide afea. The system of heating is especially noteworthy because of the objectives of economy, flexibility df use and of good control that are ac- complished. The following is the budget of the construction of' the building: I I ri s- 'l926i . .'1'.....J i Page Nineteen I . I

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I I i I I, I I I I I -:il 11:19--s-,..,..iTI. .Le ..,..,.I .... I...... -f' .. ..,--A --....,, ,,..N-af,-- 'g.,g:.::g::.' 1- . f-we L2 ., ,..:w ,,., ,,,.. .... j:g-M--- 4 '4 ' D----.,..... --'--.v ,... '- ---------N -... ., ,,...,..... .,..,. s -.. ,,,, ,.-4 ,f -fA-- -' ,. ' typ.. :T huuh I ..I........,, , ,,,......,... .. .,,. .. , .... ,ff -A it ,........,. ,I., , .,-LL., or I I . I I The New Building near the end of 1925 I I I BASEMENT AND FOUNDATiON I Boiler room, coal bunker, four units: ashpit, two units: office: for engineerg battery room. GROUND FLOOR JI Foundry and forge shop, boys' toilet, janitor's room, electric and metal shop, machine shop, gen- eral delivery room, auto mechanics room, girls' toilet room, bricklaying and concrete shop, and bicycle room. ' I FIRST FLOOR ,I Combination study, reception and recitation room, laundry Iand utility kitchen, Vocational Di- rectors' suite, woodworking machine shop, woodfinishing room, finished articles room, printing shop, group kitchen, vocational unit kitchen, vocational sewing room, standard ,Isewing room high school, model din- ing room, oflice suite for Superintendent and Board of Education, ticket oflice, pay. phone booth, princi- pal's suite, two recitation rooms, boys' toilet room, girl's toilet rdom, auditorium, stage, four dressing rooms, property room, gymnasium, gymnasium apparatus rooms, girlh' gymnasium suite, boy's gymnasium suite, ticket and check room. ,I SECOND FLOOR I I D Recitation suite, study room, mechanical drawing suite, 'arts fand crafts room, l1brarian's workroom, library classroom, teachers' study and reference room, suite or recitation rooms, music and public speaking I I I I I I 1 1926 ' ' 1 I' ' ' I Page Twenty One I I I