Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Lis 1 l- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL T is over forty years since Central High School, of blinneapolis, came into being. Its birthplace was on the site of the present City Hall, but its location has changed twice with its ever-increasing size. The first move was to Fourth Avenue South and Eleventh Street. An addition to the building erected here doubled its capacity and enabled it to remain adequate until we moved into this new building at Fourth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street in 1913. Central High's present building was built at a cost of seven hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars and is conceded to be the finest high school building in the Northwest. This building contains forty-two class rooms built to accommodate sixteen hundred pupils. In the center of the ground floor is the lunch room, with adjoining kitchen, etc., which has a capacity of eight hundred. Domestic .-Xrt has a cooking room, two sewing rooms and a house- keeping suite. At the opposite side is the Botany suite of lecture room, class room, and experimental garden under a glass roof. Also on this floor are locker rooms, some connected with the gymnasiums: shower baths: and in a one-story annex, the Manual Training department. Here are completely equipped shops for both wood and metal work. Above them are the mechanical drawing rooms. Un the first floor, to the right of the entrance, is the administration suite. Occupying the central position is the auditorium which with a gallery opening into the third and fourth floors seats eighteen hundred people. The stage is of ample proportions. Science laboratories to the number of five occupy the end spaces of this floor, and one end of the floor above. To the rear, with openings out of the auditorium stage, are the two gymnasiums, each eighty by forty feet. Roller partitions enable them to be thrown together, while an eighteen-and-a-half-lap-to-the-mile running track serves both for athletics and as a spectators, gallery.