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Show THE NEW B. Y. ACADEMY BUILDING. Work to Be Commenced at Once Upon an Imposing Edifice, Which, When Completed,-Will Be l$l Feet Long by 169 Feet Wide. A Tover 100 Feet High to Top a Metal Roof Surmounted Sur-mounted With a Beautiful Cresting. 1'iipilss Will Have Uie Advantages of a. Gymnasium, I'levaior and All Modern. Convenience. Yesterday morning Superintended 1 II. II. Cluff showed The Dispatch i man the jilans of the new build in? : to be erected for the B. Y. Academy ; on its grounds on 3. street. The ma i jority of our readers will remember j that in the spring of 1SS4 the ground j was broken and he foundation laid j for this building, but that on account of the difficulty experienced in realizing real-izing the necessary means for its completion com-pletion operations were suspended and the work covered over to protect it against the weather until times brightened up and the property, with which this institutioH was endowed by its magnanimous and illustrious founder, could be advantageously converted into ready means. Seven years and over have passed since this work was commenced, and to-day Provo finds herself possessed of the fact that operations on the building build-ing are to be resumed at once to cease not until the finishing touch is given the building. The plans shown to us yesterday by Supt. Cluff are the work of Don Carlos Young ot Salt Lake City. They are the plans originally intended for the building, but have been somewhat modified since it was decided a few weeks ago by the board of trustees of the B. Y. Academy to go ahead and complete the building this year. The building, which will partake somewhat of the Gothic style of architecture, archi-tecture, will be 184 feet long, by 1G9 feet wide; it will be of brick with stone caps, sills, and water-tables. It is expected, ex-pected, although not yet decided, that the rock to be used iu the facings and caps will come from Kyune, Price canyon. can-yon. The rock work will be five feet six inches from the surface of the ground to the top of the basement windows. The roof will b of metal and will be surmounted with a beautiful beauti-ful cresting. The tower will be nearly 100 feet high. While the main entrance will face the west, yet the building has been so designed as to have an elegant appearance from every point of the compass. One beauty about the building is that there is not a window but what will catch the sun sometime during the day. Over the main entrance will be a beautiful white tablet, on which will be inscribed the words, "b. y. academy' Above this will be the date-stone, bearing the figures, "ISM," the year in which it is contemplated the build, ing will be completed. It was the intention formerly to use the basement for dining purposes for the accommodation of the students, and to locate the furnace in it, but this idea has been changed, and the furnace furn-ace will now be detached from the building, and the whole of the basement base-ment thrown into recitation and class rooms, all of which will be twelve feet in the clear. The labaratory will be located in the northwest corner, while the lecture room for studies in chemistry chemis-try will be situated immediately behind be-hind it. In the southwest corner will be the gymnasium, which will be fitted up in splendid style. Another large loom in the basement will be devoted to kindergarten, while a dark room for experiments, teachers' labaratory, and two large class rooms will also be situated in tiie basement. The first floor, which will be reached by the flight of stone steps at the main entrance, will contain the secretary's room on the southwest, with an open vestibule in front. The principals room, 21x14. will adjoin it on the north, while between that and the hallway hall-way to the main entrance will be the ' treasurer" and teacher's room. In the northeast corner of this room will be situated the elevator which will connect con-nect all the floors. On the left hand of the main entrance will be two large class rooms, each 39 x 30 feet. Behind Be-hind the secretary's room on this floor the preparatory department will have its room, while adjoining it, albeit separated by a large hallway I leading to the cloakrooms, outhouws. j etc., will be situated intermediate and j B. The northeast corner of this story j will be the design room, an apartment ! 20 x 30 feet. The hall in this part of the building is to be 112 feet lo ng by ! 10 wide, and will separate the rooms! on the east and west. j On the second floor will by situated j a large a.-seinbly hall, 1784 x S2 feet, j This room will have a beautiful ros- j trum, and the scats will be arranged j sc -mi-circular in form and will slope ' towards the rostrum. The roof will be i supported by four iron columns, the ! seats will be stationary, and no dan-j cing will be allowed in the building, j In the southwest corner of this floor,; academic B will have its quarters,! while behind it on the east v. ill be academic aca-demic A. The i'ormtr department: 'w !1 I'isu-a room 3-5x20 feet, while , ti e latter will have one 30 x 30 feet. ; A recitation room, 30 x 20 feet, will ad-join ad-join academic A on the eat. I:imed- Mlllmlim.i... in g i iii mill- -i iately over the front entrance will be the teachers' study, 16 x 25 feet; next to that will be the ladies' parlor, 12 x 16 feet; then comes the music room, 16 x 24 feet. In the northwest corner the normal and collegiate departments will have their quarters, the former occupying a room 40 x SO feet, and the latter 30 x 30 feet. On this floor will be situated the ladies' work-room 20 x 30 feet. As will be seen by the notice in The Dispatch, bids for the entire construction con-struction of the building will be opened open-ed at 12 o'clock on the loth inst., at the superintendent's office in the First National Bank. We understand that there are a number of contractors figuring on the work, among which are the P. L. M. & B. Co., George W. Mickle, Enders & Henderson, and other local contractors, besides several prominenc Salt Lake firms. The estimated esti-mated cost of the building is expected to be not less than $75,000. WorK tr ill not be delaed one hour after the awarding of the contract. It will be the express understanding with the successful contractors, that the building build-ing will be completed, at least so far as to permit of the opening of the next school year, which begins the latter part of August. Of course the entire work may not be completed before the end of the first term, which will be sometime in the latter part of October. The whole block of land on which the building will be situated, will be laid off in lawns, flower beds, and recreation grounds. |