Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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-si pigs, Page 4 .fa eaadde Jfagfn School an i907 ln i902 the Board of Education purchased a building site of four and a half acres on Fifteenth and Cass Streets The price was S23 000 Plans were prepared for a building to accommodate between 700 and 800 students and to cost about S100 000 The securing of an architect of skill integrity and proved capacity was made possible through limited competition in which each competitor was paid something for his work Since bids for construction were far in excess of the estimated amount a total of S150 000 was voted by the city council Work was begun on August 3l l905 The completion and occupancy of the new high school building took place in January, l907. The total cost was Sl9l,7l7.52 computed and paid for in the un- inflated currency of the year l907. The exterior walls are of dark paving brick with trimmings of Bedford sandstone. The main corridor extending from the east to the west entrance is seventeen feet in width. The vestibule of the Cass Street entrance is twenty-four feet in width with steps and wainscoating of white marble. The annex with its equipment, a gift from Mr. Frank P. Hixon, was finished and dedicated in May, l9l 3. The cost was approximately 590,000 1

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'Me Weaaleaak an 1907 The yearbook of l907 was THE JUNIOR ANNUAL published under the dlrectlon of a staff selected from the junior class lt had a heavy black paper cover and was bound on the short slde Of Its eughty pages the last enght were mannly advertlsmg There was no tntle page Several pages were devoted to each of the eight classes the maternal having been prepared by a committee from each class Seven addltuonal departments each wnth nts own edntor Included Socnal and Alumni Locals and Personals Musical Jokes Debate and Declamatlon and Athletics The dedication to the new principal Louns P Benezet was written In rhyme The slngle page devoted to the faculty llsted the names and subjects taught There were no nncluvndual or group plctures of the classes The only groups pvctured were the football team and the Luncoln Douglas Debatlng Socnety Poems and stones wntten by students were selected by competutuon The book was monotyped and prlnted by A A Luesenfeld of La Crosse The l906 and the l907 JUNIOR ANNUALS supplned the sketches and much of the copy used on the dlvlsuon pages of thus the l957 BOOSTER Pag 5 I I I I I I I I I ' I , . C