Eastern High School - Echo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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F TIME MARCT-IES CDN AISQUITH AND ORLEANS STREETS 1852 - AISQUITH AND 1852-Aisquith and Mullikin Streets This building was 95 by 50 feet and was three, stories in height. It was constructed of brick in a pleas- ing style of architecture, and there was a small ante-room at the front to receive the bonnets, shawls, etc., of the pupils. The number of schol- ars had increased to 136 and, at the close of the school year, seven young ladies received certificates. .-,Q- 1844--Front and Pitt Streets The structure at Front and Pitt Streets was the first to be occupied by '4Th-e Eastern Female High School . It was two stories high . . . 50 by 34- feet . . . built in a neat and substan- tial manner . . . and the cost with its furniture, 335007 The high school used only the second floor, while a primary school held classes on the first. The enrollment was 36, and the principal -and only teacher was Mr. David Ring. MUL LIKIN STREETS NORTH AND BROADWAY 155555

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EGR EASTERN 1870-Aisquith and Orleans Streets The school completed in this year was near the site of the 1852 building and was built with a view to the future . . . free from useless orna- ment and as plain in plan and con- struction as possible to comport with 1 90 7-North Avenue The new school, completed and transferred to this departmentn CDe- partment of Education? in Novem- berf' has long since become famous for its classic lines and marble halls. When the structure was first put into use,the playg'r1oun-d,'1was -on the roof because the building occupied all of the avail-able yard space. The Assem- bly Hall had 'isittings for ten hun- the character of the buildingf' It was capable of accommodating about 600 pupils with comfort and securityf' To instruct the 337 fe- males , there were 12 teachers. and Broadway dred and thirteen. The building was heated by steam radiators . . . and lighted throughout with electricity- and with gas, should be electricity fail. A school board report in 1907 stated that the city is to be congrat- ulated on at last having a high school building that will compare with the best buildings devoted to such pur- poses in other cities? 1938 TI-HRTY-THIRD STREET AND LCC!-I RAVEN RCDAD 1 93 8-Thirty-Third Street and Loch Raven Road This imposing new edifice, oc- cupied on February first, is according to Dr. Weglein, the best of its kind in the state, and-if one should ask an Easternite--the best in the coun- try. It is a four story H-shaped building . . . with sound-proof ceil- ings in the corridors, music room, auditorium, cafeteria, and locker roomsf' and there is an electrical two-way sound transmission system throughout the school. The school accommodates 2600 pupils, the audi- torium 2000. The erection of the building was a W.P.A. project and the total cost of the building includ- ing equipment, was 31,4-52,538.62 THIRTY-THIRD STREET AND LocH RAVEN Rollo