1903 - 1948 Structures
THE COTTAGES (1903 article)
Cottages A and B you enterd at first what was known as a day room for the children. This is large, and is designed for a living room when the children are indoors. The attendant’s day room joins it at the side and behind it an entry way leads from the outside directly into the children’s room. Back of this entry way a lavatory, and the baths comprising showers and foot baths. You can almost see already in your minds’ eye the picture which will be presented at that long narrow foot bath trough, on the summer nights when the sleepy little boys and girls file in and sit soaking their dirty little bare feet before hurrying off to their beds in the dormitories above. The upstairs is arranged as the down stairs, there being a large dormitory over the day room of the children and an attendants sleeping room over the attendants day room. The baths and closets are at the back.
In cottage C the arrangement is different as was arranged to accommodate both boys and girls under one roof. In this building the attendants’ room is in the center and the boys’ day room and girls’ day room are on either side. Baths, ect. Are at the back, and as in the case of the other two cottages the arrangements upstairs are exactly like those down.
The buildings throughout were finished in Georgia pine, and had the clean wholesome appearance which that wood gives. It has been a study apparently which architects to make the sanitary conditions and arrangements model and they system of ventilation is nearly perfect and the accumulation of dirt in the corners is provided against by making them turn wherever possible round. This is especially true of the base boards. The floors are hard wood throughout.
YOU CAN SEE CURRENT VIEWS OF THE CAMPUS ON THE
1947 Elks Christmas Party Preparation
1945 - Boys with Chickens.
July 24, 1945
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