Edmonds High School - Echo Yearbook (Edmonds, WA)

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The new Edmonds Senior High School campus is organized into a number of academic blocks all relating directly to a central core sys- tem running the length of the plant and incorporating the library, administration center, locker rooms, and student activity rooms. The academic blocks, providing for all areas of instruction, are defined by outdoor corridors and a number of open courts and planting spaces which also contribute greatly to the light, airy atmosphere of the school. The various buildings cover 156,000 square feet and will comfortably accommodate 1,200 students. The new school was designed by the firm of Waldron and Dietz, with Mr. Dan Miller serving as an associate. Their stated obiectives were good teaching environment, economy, low maintenance costs, low fire insurance rates, and intensive use of the 30-acre site. Their plan also provided for a football field and track flanked by a covered grandstand, a baseball field, practice areas, tennis courts, and ample parking for students and staff. The Haskell Corporation-with offices in Everett, Bellingham and Mt. Vernon-won the contract for the mechanical work on the new school. This organization, in business since 1893, provided the plumbing, heating, ventilation, insulation, fire protection system, out- side storm and sanitary sewers, and the mechanical work in the boiler room. Total cost of the new school-including some equipment, sales tax, and all architect's fees - was aproximately 2V2 million dollars, or 514.91 per square foot. 6 f 'lf I V t. t. x V . til' IV f ky XV Q V I fvlf V ' F 1 I V 7 il L J' 2 xii' fl! Av J-' it M l V L x Y, ft I lf 1 PM fl ' if M1 ,H , ml' Mr ', l l Q N J , f it ,, . tl O vl'l 1 lf li W V. L ff' l l tl lf J ll' :Ll '4 iff, Iwtl U W . JV., , s li, YI A X ll' ,Ryo ll' ., . f W.-'...,.. '- few we

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J X P, J X s ' i .I . l J Q.. ' l fly tl l is ll' itil' J 9 I - ' f 'Q 5 5 of from l 4 X 'lg i X XJ X J , X v X Tv X? rj ,J K Nz? I i . R J , rj , 5 lv x - , - rx ' f , K cf' , 1 , ' l V A I YQ! f mal? '-J me 1 ff e or V t I so -fu i flux I V tg I I V V, l v Z, i This picture of the library shows the steel beam construction used in the new school by the Dahlgren Construction Company. Open light wells overhead are featured here along with floor-to-ceiling glass in some ofthe walls. Library facilities include a book repair room, audio booths for listening to recorded material, an audio-visual storage and work center, a proiecton room for previewing educational films, conference rooms, and a central textbook storage area with its own entry. -ni i S- U .aa-...ln-. 8