East High School - Tiger Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The brick used in the buildings is the same as was used in the Freshman group at Harvard. It is made in Connecticut in the only factory where the real colonial brick is still made. Because of its location in the residential district, the colonial type of architecture was adopted. The best features of Southern, New York, Penn- sylvania, and New England Colonial architecture were used, all combining to make beautiful symmetrical buildings, an interesting study in early American architecture. The buildings will be a fitting monument to the early period of our national history, when the foundations of democracy were laid in a system of free public schoolsg they constitute a distinct American school. East High will accommodate four thousand pupils. The various class rooms are designed to accommodate units of thirty, or multiples of thirty. There are many class rooms built to accommodate a unitg others are larger and will hold two units or sixty pupils, while the music room is built for two hun- dred and forty pupils, or eight units. This system makes it possible to use all the rooms to their full capacity. A class of thirty pupils recite in a room built for thirty pupils, and not in one built for sixty. Boston Tech uses the same plan in units of fifteen. Wle are still often reminded of the incomplete state of the building by murderous hammering and drilling, and by halls crowded with materials. Nor have we forgotten tl1e first few days with our wonder and confusion, our Soap-boxu classes, and the dog. RICHARD SAUNDERS, '20. lSl

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OUR SCHOOL -1- 1-4'-- 1-1f11-1'1'1-- --f-- U --11-11'-1 -f -1- AST HIGH SCHOOL is built on a thirty-two acre tract that belonged originally to the Erkenbrecker estate. It was like other dairy farms with its small shabby farm house, broken down fences, scattered build- ings, and sleepy cattle. This little tract has the distinction of being the birth place of the Cincinnati Zoo. The Erkenbrecker family, being animal fanciers, had a small collection of birds and animals. Today this collection has grown to be one of Americafs largest and finest Zoological Exhibitions. The location of the school was chosen by committees representing the Welfare Associations of the eastern part of the city. The School Board approved their choice and made the purchase. The plans were made in 1914, and the ground was broken in December, 1915. The school, as first planned, was to be opened in 1918. It is an inter- esting fact that if the war had continued, the school would first have served as a government hospital for wounded soldiers. Although the ending of the war made this unnecessary, difficulty in getting materials, transportation and labor troubles, delayed the opening a year. Twenty-six strikes affecting practically every trade added to the worries of the contractors, whose contracts, due to rising prices and war conditions, had to be remade at a much larger figure, cven then they lost large sums of money. The cost was one million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This compares favorably with the cost of Hughes. If these buildings were to be rebuilt now, the cost would be more than twice this amount. More expensive schools have been built, but there are none more complete and forward looking. A group of foreign delegates who visited this school stated that there is nothing of this type in Europe to compare with it. Mr. Kelsey, a prominent Philadelphia architect, in praising the Cincinnati schools, says of East High, The East High School represents probably a more pene- trating look into the needs of the future than any other public school in the world. What such a community center will mean to the physical, mental, and moral development of the people in the next fifty years is beyond calcu- lation. Mr. Kelsey praises also the inspiring quotations which are cut in the walls. The clock tower, a hundred and fifteen feet high, which stands facing the center of Erie Avenue, is the axis of the whole school plan. The tower itself is not like the tower of Independence Hall as has often been said, but is modeled after the steeples of New England churches. Instead of the customary single building, the school is divided into four units or groups of buildings, the academic, the industrial with the power plant adjoining, the gymnasium, and the agricultural buildings, grouped around a large stadium seating eight thousand. l7l

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