Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Equipment THE boy who comes to Castle Heights comes to a 3500000.00 school. No preparatory institution in the South and few in other sections of the country can compete with Castle Heights in equipment. The Castle Heights school plant consists of eight separate and distinct buildings. All are of brick and stone, and most carry out in buff and red brick the castellated style of architecture. Each build- ing is electrically lighted, and all are heated by steam. As a group they present a sight as agreeable and attractive as it is dignified and stately. Patrons will note that during the summer of 1921 white enamel stationary washstands, with running hot and cold water, were installed in all cadet quarters on the Hilltop, including the Main Barracks, the Halls, the Tower, and the Chapel. These buildings were also equipped with porcelain lavatory stands conveniently located. Extensive improvements were likewise made in the electric lighting system and in the basement of the Gymnasium, where are located the general latrines, the shower-baths, and the swimming pool. THE MAIN BARRACKS The Main Barracks, the principal building of the Hilltop group, erected in l902, has a frontage of 2I5 and a depth of 250 feet. Its foundation is of buff stone: its superstructure of red and buff pressed brick. The building is four stories in height, and contains in addition to quarters for some l20 cadets, double parlors, a guest room, an oc- tagonal mess-hall finished in hardwood, an infirmary, a commodious and excellently equipped kitchen with ample store-rooms, and, in the basement at the rear, the engine-room, water-works, and electric and steam-heating plants. THE GYMNASIUM The Gymnasium, erected in l904, is eighty feet by forty. In its basement is 61 Swimmihg pool, forty feet by nineteen, with an ex- treme depth of eight feet: a shower bath room, toilets, and an indoor rifle gallery. The main floor is occupied by the gymnasium proper, with its hand ball and basket ball courts, its suspended running track and spectators' gallery, and its admirable supply of gymnastic ap- paratus. 31

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