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Show SELECTION OF SCHOOL SITE "Mr. Joseph Monson, Advisory Ar cbJtect for State School Building Commfission renders the following report on a suitable site fur the new school building. Mr. Monson is thoroughly familiar with the plans and specifications of the proposed building, being required tto approve the .same before building is commenced. com-menced. v May 23, 1919 Hon. Board of Education, Beaver County School District, Beaver City Utah. Gentlemen: Replying to your favor of the 13th, I i-espe;tfully submit the following: The Building The proposed new school building to be erected at Beaver Bea-ver is of the one story type with a basement and ground floor. The principal floor will contain twelve standard class rooms, auditorium, offices etc. The f;round floor will contain manuel t raining, domestic science, domestic art, recreation, and toilet rooms etc. Tbe sub-basement will contain, boiler and coal rooms, swlmmla5 pool, plenum chamber, ducts for steam mains, returns, etc. All class rooms auditorium audi-torium etc., will be ventilated by a adenum or pressure system of ventilation. ven-tilation. All air leakage therefore from these apartments will be outward, out-ward, thus elim'tnating the danger of dratring foul ior polluted air into these rooms from other portions of the building. Tlie toilet rooms will be ventilated by means of an exhaust ex-haust system of ventilation. In this syBtem a partial vacuum is created within these appirtments, the air leakage therefore will be inward from recreation rooms and corridors corri-dors into the rooms, thus counter-' counter-' acting the tendency of foul smelling lair and noxious gases passing into other portions of the "building. The basement story will lie light, dry, airy and as perfectly ventilated as any of the rooms on the principal floor. The School Building Site The i site should lie elevate! reasonably level, though with sufficient slope in all directions to provide proper ,' drainage from the building. Where-j Where-j ver possible, a site should be select-1 select-1 ed where there is porous soil such ,' as sand or gravel. In all cases the : ground should be -well-drained and t free from organic matter. No made ; ground or filled in lot should be se-; se-; lected for school ' irposes. Swampy i land is equally ou t of the question. The healthfulness of iur school site : is of so much imp oitance that ordinary ordin-ary real estate coi uidcrations should ( under no circum: seances govern the i choice, and you should do will to heed the advice . v- some practical . sanitarian, in the i -ivent of doubt as j to the correetne bs of the suggestion suggest-ion herein cont Jtined. i Uuve iL.-j.de a careful inspection t grounds in all parts of your city iL-r iLe iurpuse ol s.tusiying uiy-e.L uiy-e.L as to the most desirable site up-eiu up-eiu whicu to erect your new school building. 1 found thai the ground in Lhe north, south, west and central cen-tral burl ot the city was rather low. :!.,:. diiLculi to drain. and was t: ereiore mure or less waller-log- I t:e i. There seems to be no iniuaed- i:i;e nrospect of alleviating this j ti' ".ible. Ou the contrary, this con-c:iion con-c:iion will more likely become more auuravatcd. In order to remedy the i eoiiciitiou l-'aimed. a drainage sys-:.--:u would have to be constructed at a eo: jierhans of hundreds of j r!.ousands of dollars. It would seem ; therefore, that an undertaking of 1 .--ue!i magnitude would, in all probability prob-ability lie out of the question at this time. There is a plateau extending ac-: ac-: ross the east end of the city ill a I slightly north easterly direction. On ! this plateau there are a number of sites that would be attimraoiy adapted for schuol purposes. The soil seems to be underlaid witli a gravel formation. The elevation I would judge to be about thirty-five feet higher than the main street, running north and south through the city. If found necessary, any of said sites can be drained at a very nominal cost. This ground is high and clean and seems to bt dr-y, but if it is not dry. it can be drained very easily as above suggested. The site that would contribute the most of the beauty of the city is lo-Vated lo-Vated at the head of the main or center street, extending east and west through the town. Should this site bo selected. the school 'building could be located facing west with front entrance about the middle of the street. Thus the effect ef-fect would be similar to the State Capitol which is located at the head of the State Street. In the event of this site being chosen, I respectfully respectful-ly roccommend that you purchase two whole city blocks. If, however, you find that this site is not available, avail-able, or that it is too expensive, I suggest that you negotiate for a 'similar site at the head of some street to that north of the street above mentioned. Of the site north of Center Street, the one at the head of Third North Street, in my opinion, opin-ion, is the most desirable. However anv site located within the limits described would be satisfactory from a sanitary point of view. In the matter of erecting the building. I suggest that the top of the ground floor be located at a point not more than eighteen inches below top of natural grade; and that you utilize the dirt" derived from the excavation excava-tion of boiler and coal rooms, swimming pool, plenum chamber, and ducts in grading around building. build-ing. The finished grade should be as indicated on plan, which leaves the bottom of windows well above the finished grade line. Respectfullv submitted JOSEPH MONSON idvisorv Architect. Beaver County Weekly Press |