Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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History of New Building Note With the kind permission of the News-Dispatch we are using this article, copied from their issue of June 10, 1920. N the ,light of JanualT 19 1917, the board of education for the Johnson-St. Paris village sc 00 district passed a resolution, calling for a special election on February 20 to vote on the proposition of a bond issue of $75,000 with which to purchase grounds and erect a new school building. This issue was carried by a majority of 32 votes. May 1, 1917, the board decided to locate the building upon its present site on East Main street and purchased eight acres of ground, providing commodious play and athletic fields as well as a wide expanse for lawns and landscape purposes. The contract for the building was let to Elmer E. Beckett of Columbus on August 4, 1917, and he completed his work in the fall of 1919. An additional bond issue for $25,000 was voted at a’spe- cial election to provide sufficient funds to meet the advance in prices of material and labor caused by war conditions. The very best of materials and skilled labor were used in erecting the structure which is practi- cally fire proof. A conservative estimate for erecting such a building today is $250,000. Had the project not been pushed at the time it was, it might have been several years before the district would have been able to carry the indebtedness.” Plan of The Building The basement: The manual training and domestic science rooms are now fully equipped In the domestic science room there are ten tables with a gas stove to each table. The manual training room equipped with one table and a set of tools for each member of the class, while there is also an extra set of special tools. The furnace and pump rooms, two lavatories, two large rooms which are not yet equipped now used as store rooms, boys and girls dressing rooms and the gymnasium comprise the rest of the basement. On the first floor are six grade rooms, a rest room, the art teachers office and the auditorium. On the second floor are two grade rooms, three high school recitation rooms, normal training room, a large study hall, physics laboratory, superintendent’s office and a library. Drinking fountains and lavatories are located on each floor and the building is lighted through- out with electricity. —Lucile Hill. 43

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