Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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THE BUILDINGS The School The School, built of brick and cement, has been named Mitchell Hall, in memory of the late Charles Andrews Mitchell, co-founder. It incorporates the best features of the most approved modern school buildings, and contains the recitation rooms, library, laboratories, study, and auditorium, all heated by steam and lighted by electricity. The Senior House is a dormitory for the use The Senior House c , , c , ,™. or the boys or the two upper borms. I his building is similar to Anderson Hall in general appearance and construc- tion and is fitted with all modern conveniences for the comfort of the pupils. It has been named Percy Lawrence Hall, in memory of Millard Percy Lawrence, a member of the Class of 1906. Anderson Hall, named in honor of Newton The ower ouse ]y[itchell Anderson, one of the founders, is the dormitory for boys of the lower Forms. It is of pleasing architec- ture, substantially built of brick and cement. It is heated by steam, lighted by electricity, and equipped with an excellent system of ventila- tion and with ample lavatories and bathrooms provided with modern plumbing. The Library, called the Hillyer Holden Library, was Library foun(jecj by the gift of Mr. R. A. Holden, of Cincinnati, Ohio, in memory of his son, Hillyer Holden. It contains well-selected works of reference and general literature, and also the best periodicals. In 1931 the Library was entirely remodeled and refurnished. The William Spencer Boyd Memorial Chapel, built in the summer of 1927 in memory of a member of the Class of 1915, is the generous gift of his mother, Mrs. Mary S. Boyd, of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is built of native granite in Tudor Gothic style, finished in oak, and seats about 400 persons. The organ is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burnham Standish Colburn, of Biltmore Forest, in memory of their son, William Cullen Colburn, of the Class of 1918. [ 16 ]

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I for baseball, football, soccer football, tennis, golf, and other sports; and a large tract is densely wooded. Within two miles, north and south, mountains rise to a height of four thousand feet. On the east is the range of the Black Mountains culminating in Mt. Mitchell, six thou- sand seven hundred feet in altitude, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. On the west are the Balsam Mountains and ranges of the Blue Ridge, with Mt. Pisgah, rising to an elevation of five thousand seven hundred feet. Ii5l

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ANDERSON HALL