Description and Dedication of the Jefferson Public School Building (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Description and Dedication of the Jefferson Public School Building The site on which the Jefferson Public School Building stands is located on the southeast corner of Sixth and D streets southwest, a central position for the accommodation of the residents of South Washington. The parcels of ground of which it is made up were purchased by the late Corporation of Washington, as follows: Lot No. 8, from Thomas and W. W. Corcoran, deed dated March 13, 1845, for $750; part of lot No. 9, from John M. Springman, deed dated May 12, 1860, for $3,525; part of lot No. 9, from Patrick O´Brien, deed dated May 24, 1860, for $1,100; part of lot No. 9, from George Wright, deed dated May 23, 1860, for $928; lot No. 10, from Richard Barry, deed dated May 12, 1860, for $7,320. It has a front of 283 feet, average depth of 224 feet, contains 63,288 square feet, and originally cost, as will be seen from the statements made above, $13,623. Its present value is estimated to be $30,000. By an act of the City Councils, approved March 28, 1870, authority to erect the building was given to a committee, composed of the Mayor, to be ex officio chairman, three Aldermen, three Councilmen, and four Trustees of Public Schools; and the requisite appropriations were made by the same act and a subsequent one approved May 9, 1871, and renewed by an act of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, approved August 23, 1871. The well-known architect, Mr. Adolf Cluss, was employed to prepare plans of the building and superintend its erection. Proposals were received in response to an advertisement, and a contract was awarded to Messrs. Hunt Williams, their bid being the most favorable. Detailed descriptions of the various structures for school purposes in this city have been given from time to time, all of which reflect the highest credit on this community. The most important of all, the Jefferson School Building, so named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, who, while President of the United States, was also President of the first Board of Trustees of Public Schools of Washington, and held that office for three years, is unique in many respects, most complete in all its appointments, and accommodates 1,200 pupils of various grades in 20 schoolrooms. It has been attempted, in the design of this building, to subordinate the artistic to the useful, and to give in architecture an expression of the dominant sentiments of our time. The same number of children that have been pursuing their studies on its site for years will pursue them in the new building, the only difference being that they were formerly housed in temporary frames, and in fact cramped in disgraceful huts with seven-foot ceilings, and without an apology for ventilation. The immense structure will not draw a single child from other sections. The building has a main front of 173 feet in length, facing D street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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