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The 1922 Addition Permit History The last addition was made about 1922 or so. It was very different from the rest of the school. It had the same wide hall but with light oak trim along the stairway and doors which had opaque window glass. The right or North side had two rooms divided by two small bathrooms, one for the boys and one for the girls. The drinking fountain was in-between. There were only two or three stalls. I think they were pink, at least the girls'. These classrooms were the kindergarten rooms and mine was the one in back with Miss Forward. It had metal climbing bars installed on the back wall that were never used. On the south side of the hall there was a narrow storage room used by the PTA. Then the double wide swinging door entrance into the gym. A few wide steps down to a landing and a regular door led off on the right to the stage. Then a few more wide steps down to a second swinging door into the gym itself. About half-way down into the gym on the East side, a door opened outside. At the opposite side of the stage was a narrow room for equipment storage. The gym was also used as an auditorium. The whole school would assemble with the kids sitting cross-legged and we would sing from the Grand Rapids Singer. In the hallway outside the gym entrance, rose a very wide double-back stairway against the gym wall. Upstairs on the right or North side was a repeat of the arrangement of the first floor. The rear room was a kitchen/storage/art/music/junk room used by the PTA. East of that was another classroom used for the other 6th grade. Their teacher was a MAN. Above the gym was a side hall. There were two regular size class rooms on the West Side. The first room was my 4th and 5th grade class with Mrs. DeVries. At the end of the wall was a small room used for the retarded kids who had Miss Teebow. On the East side was a teacher's lounge with swinging doors. I never went in there. Off the main hall was a narrow room used by the nurse and the visiting speech teacher. The basement entrance was via a narrow stairway underneath the much bigger main stairway. It had a heavy self-closing door. I explored. The hallway at the bottom was BIG and painted bright red and blue. The furnace was on the left. You had to step down a narrow metal/cement half-stairway to get down into the boiler room. On the right was the space under the stage in the gym.
From article City Schools From Heading History and the City of GrandRapids From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info |
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