The Bulkeley high school building in Hartford, Conn., also designed by Cooper, shows how the simple type may be used to accommodate a school of nearly 2,000 pupils. This building is of the I plan with the central unit used for academic work. There is a gymnasium at one end and an auditorium at the opposite end of the building. Shops occupy a separate unit at the rear. Each of these units may be used by the school or community without disturbing occupants of the other units.
The Columbia high school, South Orange and Maplewood, N.J., designed by Guilbert and Betelle, is a building with a capacity of 1,600 pupils. There are standard class-rooms supplemented by rooms for special subjects. The auditorium seats 1,300 persons and on the large stage is a pipe organ. Full size gymnasiums are provided for both boys and girls, and between the gymnasiums is a swimming pool with spectators' gallery.
The Central Technical high school, Columbus, 0., designed by William B. Ittner, is one of a group of buildings comprising a new civic centre. Its outstanding features are a room facing two sunken gardens in the forecourt, the main en trance approach being across its roof, which brings the room into a location where it can be turned over for community uses without entrance to the school building proper: an auditorium, seating 1,500 persons, that combines a gymnasium and stage,—the stage, 20 ft. deep, being separated from the girls' gymnasium by a steel sound-proof curtain, and being adjoined by the boys' gymnasium on the other side at the rear, thus making it possible to throw the entire health suite together for pageants, large choruses and the social features of the school ; and an art group, comprising a room for drawing and a room for commercial art, printing, ceramics and art metal work, grouped on the top storey around an art gallery, the entire group being top or gallery-lighted. The
pupil accommodation approximates 1,800.
The Eureka junior high school, Eureka, Calif., designed by John J. Donovan, exemplifies a group development often found in the Western United States. The 3o ac. of land include a huge gulch which has been converted into a stadium (q.v.) encircled by a quarter mile track. Between the shops and the bleachers is the proposed swimming pool, with dressing rooms on either side for boys, girls, men and women. To the south end of the stadium is the proposed open-air theatre stage with dressing rooms, which with the swimming pool pavilions will be built of rustic lumber or of logs.
The first floor plan of the junior high school shows the class rooms around three sides of an interior court. The north side of the court is formed by the assembly hall, east of which are the boys' and girls' gymnasiums. There are class-rooms, a study hall, library with a stack room, two mechanical drawing rooms, two general science laboratories, administration suite, sewing room, cooking room, typing and book-keeping room, art rooms and an assembly room with a stage that has a seating capacity of 15o persons. The assembly room is used by members of the com munity as well as students; it has a capacity of 1,200 seats.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The best sources of information on modern school buildings are the leading architectural magazines of the various countries (see bibliography under ARCHITECTURE) and, in the United States, The American Educational Digest, The American School Board Journal and The Platoon School. (F. I. C.)