Burgard Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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K 0000 5 A Two of the six acres of land donated to the city by Mr. Henry P. Burgard, well known Buffalonian and philanthropist, will be occupied by the school builing. A new street, paved twenty'four feet in width, will be cut through at the west end of the property. It will intersect and provide an outlet to Kensington Avenue for Kenova and Van Gorder Avenues. The Architectural Style The design is a combination of modern factory and school architecture in the bold and heavier type of Gothic. The building will be constructed of buif'orange brick trimmed with artificial cast stone and Queenston limestone. It is set back 90 feet from the Kensington curb line permitting an extensive lawn and planting area. The walk approaches are interrupted by two groups of terraced steps which gradually rise from the street to the level of the second or main floor. ' , The structure is 290 feet long on the Kensington frontage with two extensions on the east, one of 24 feet for the gymnasium and another of 46 feet for the boiler room, thus making a total over'all length of 361 feet. The width is 188 feet for the building proper with 33 feet additional in the boiler room section. The south or front elevation appears to be three stories in height, sur' mounted by a tower, but actually, the building contains four floors, the iirst or basement floor showing only on the east, north and west elevations. The building is of brick, stone, concrete and steel construction and rests on 312 cylindrical concrete caissons sunk 12 to 20 feet to bed rock. Test borings were taken to determine the true soil condition before advertising for bids. The Floor Plans The first or basement floor with main shop entrances in the rear, contains the central receiving rooms, locker rooms, boiler and fan rooms, space for swim' ming pool, showers, transformers and switchboard rooms, central store room No. 1, bicycle room, automobile ramp entrance, and the following shops: Oxyacetylene and Electric Arc Welding, Bus, Truck and Tractor Repair, Ad' vanced Automobile Mechanical Repair, Avanced Automobile Electrical Repair, Storgae Battery Construction and Repair, and Tire Repair. Leading to the second floor are the main approaches to the build' ing. Three large and commodious doorways open upon a vestibule and lobby directly in front of the Auditorium. This floor contains the auditorium proper, the large double gymnasium, size 92 by 60 feet, with bleacher accom' modations for a thousand spectators, the Principal's and other offices, faculty conference room, library, clinic, sound proof music room, central store room No. 2, and the following classrooms and shops: Printing Job Presswork, Cyl' inder and Automatic Presswork, Advanced Engine and Chassis Testing, Auto' mobile Ignition, Automobile Starting and Lighting, Radiator and Collision Service, Automobile Engine and Carburetor Repair, Two Trade Mathematics rooms, Trade Science Mechanical Laboratory and Lecture room. The third floor houses the auditorium balcony, upper part of the gym' nasium, central store room No. 3, trade theory lecture rooms and the following shops and classrooms: Printing Hand Composition, Linotype Operation and Maintenance, Advanced Automobile Engine Repair, Advanced 'Automobile -22- I II llll A '-3 ll ll Ill ll lid! T , IIQIIIF I'-if f h l!:v lr Y 'TPI ,. 'N U F l 1 1 i r l lu ,r .. - L s' Y ' fl ll I I N I I im A A L 7 A .Lg X. pl

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Q PF ul Electrical Installations Two kinds of electric 'current will be used in the building: 220 volts, 3 phase, 25 cycle alternating and 115' to 230 volt, three wire direct current generated at the school by motorfgenerators, for special use in the printing department, the dynamometer test rooms and for science laboratory use. A standard, fully automatic emergency light system which cutsfin when reg' ular service fails and cutsfouts when the same is restored, is part of the equipment at the school. There will be installed a complete private intercommunicating system of telephones to every shop and room in the building, and a special AutofCall which will operate from the ofhce. The clock equipment specified includes a program system of master and secondary clocks with an automatic sixfprogram circuit. In connection with each wall telephone in all classrooms, lecture rooms, study rooms and special assembly rooms, there is furnished a radio jack conf nected to the central radio control panel on the auditorium stage. The stage has a door large enough for automobiles, opening on the north trailic corridor. Installed at the right of the proscenium opening there will be a complete, manually operated, selective interlocking, mechanical remote con- trol stage switchboard for dimmers, footlights, border lights, and the audito- rium lights. 4 A moving picture booth is located in the rear of the balcony and pipe organ lofts are provided at the right and left of the upper part of the stage. Engineering Features The building will have a pressure water system with pressure tank, pumps, motors, and air compressor for supplying the entire building with water at a pressure of sixty pounds per square inch. A builtfin motor exhaust pipe system to all motor testing shops and a com' pressed air system for all shops and laboratories are being provided. The boiler and fan equipment calls for two boilers capable of developing a maximum of 600 horsepower each and furnished with standard underffeed automatic stokers and four main fans for supplying fresh air, also a radial brick chimney 125 feet high, equipped with a lightning conductor, and guaranteed to withstand a wind Velocity of 100 miles per hour. Deferred Contracts The equipment, including furniture such as desks, lockers, tables, chairs, etc., shop machinery, tools and apparatus, sodding, seeding, planting, fences, flagpoles, slate blackboards, alternator or folding blackboards, visual education stereopticons and motion picture machines, lighting fixtures, shades, stage draf peries, auditorium seats, oiiice furniture, gymnasium and cafeteria equipment, will cost approximately S500,000. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy September l, 1930. , -24- 'rim ' A I' J V, ll ally I -11. ' .. it Hu 1' T V i L 1 I f I I - if hs A lLa -lf ff