Class _ - "- ^ ) Book_ -iUL Copyright ]>I°_ COPYRIGHT DEPOSnV WHITE PINE SEIUES OF oArcljitectural ^onograpt)s 'Volum e W D^umber4 Designs for a. THREE TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL WUh Teachers' Cottage To be built q/* WHITE PINE 'With report of the Jury of:jffrchit^cts James OBetelle :'Wm S Ittner Guy Lowell :Jlrthur I Meigs Irving KPondL Copyright, ipat George F. Lindsay, Chairman White Pine Bureau saint paul, minnesota AUG 1 1 m\ £yCI.AS53333 "^v«- I ssJ^ai An Architectural MONOGRAPH THREE TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL Wif/i Teachers Cottage To be built o^ WHITE PINE Competitive Drawings With report oj the Juty o^Archttects James OBetelle-.'WrnB Ittner Guy Loiuell : Arthur I Meigs Iroing KPond Trepa:red for TubJica.tion by 'RuffellF Whitehead former/y£dUor of The Architectural Hecord and The Brickbui/der /jz Madison^ve.NewYork NX 792-? rrrM ^^SM V5!t;.- .. ■; ^< JM^3^>*y^J^';Pf^^^^^ FRj:iKT ELEVAT FIRST PRIZE DESIGN Submitted by Antonio DiNardo and W. Frank Hitchens, Pittsburgh, Pa. TfeWHlTL PINL SmES9^ ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS A Bl-MONTLY PUBLIOXTION SUGGESTING TE ARCHIXCTURAL USLS CF WHITE PINE AtsD ITS /VALABLITY TODAY AS A STRUCTURAL W3DD Vol. Vll AUGUST. 1921 No. 4 A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL WITH TEACHERS' COTTAGE REPORT OF THE JURY OF AWARD OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL WHITE PINE ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION Judged at Yama Farms, Napanoch, N. Y., May 6 and y, iq2i PROBLEM: A. The design of a three-teacher rural school building ti be built of wood — all outside finish to be of White Pine. The school property is level and contains about five acres. It is located on the east side of the main street of the village, which runs north and south and between two minor roads, making a frontage of the property of three hundred feet on the main street and a depth of seven hundred feet to a property line. The building is to be kept well back from the i. -in street and the front portion of the property devel- oped and used as a small Park or Village Green. The requirements are as follows. Building to be one story with or without a basement, or with basement partially excavated for boiler and fuel rooms. Three standard class rooms, each with an area of 720 square feet, and seating 40 pupils each. Two of these rooms separated by folding partitions. Ceiling heights not less than 12' 0" in clear. Class rooms lighted from left side only. Windows in one long bank. Heads of windows as close to ceiling as possible. Net glass area of windows to equal not less than 20% of the class room floor area. Adjoining each class room shall be provided a coat room for the pupils' clothing. An industrial art room shall be provided for boys, equal in area from J/^ to ^ of a class room. Net glass area to be same propor- tion as called for in class room, but windows may be on one or two sides of the room. A domestic science room for girls, equal in area from J4 to J4 of a class room. Net glass area to be same proportion as called for in class room, but windows may be on one or two sides of room. ( -^ A room for library, 150 to 200 square feet. A teachers' room with toilet accommodations and about the same size as library. Toilet room for boys, containing two W. C.'s and three urinals and two lavatories. Toilet rooms for girls, containing four W. C.'s and two lavatories. A play room for boys, equal to about a class room in area. A play room for girls, equal to about a class room in area. _ These play rooms may be either in the basement or on main floor. In any case, they must be adjacent to and the toilet rooms made available, as these play rooms are used before and after school and in summer time when the main portion of school is closed. Toilet rooms should also be easily accessible from the main part of school building. Play rooms must be directly accessible from outside of building and also accessible to main portions of building from the inside. "Two or more entrances must be provided. A flag-pole, higher than the school building, must be located on the property in a dignified position. The building will be heated and ventilated by a hot-air furnace or steam boiler. Therefore, a furnace room and a fuel room are necessary, also a small general storage room, janitor's room, etc. Electricity, water and sewerage facilities are supplied by the village. For this reason the school will not have the usual outside drinking pumps, toilets, etc., but will have modern city conveniences. The architectural style is optional. B, The design of a teachers' cottage — construction materials similar to those of school building. The requirements are as follows; Living room with fireplace, area 225 square feet. Dining room, area about 150 square feet. Kitchen and accessories, area about 130 square feet. 'Three teachers' bedrooms with clothes closets, area about 125 square feet each, Bath room; closet for trunks: and a porch. The teachers' cottage may be one story or two stories in height, at the option of the designer. It should have a domestic character, but correspond in general architectural style to the school building. THE programme for the Sixth Annual countered in the average architectural practice, Architectural Competition, instituted by and that, therefore, the contestant would have to the Editor of The White Pine Series of exercise a greater degree of ingenuity than when Architectural Monographs, called for a school working out a problem for which there was building and teachers' cottage, to be erected in a ample precedent. The specific conditions of the progressive community, where the desire was for problem, therefore, necessarily were made fairly buildings which would be expressive of the pur- precise and definite. If it had been possible to pose for which they were to be used, and which make the programme a little "looser," and would set a high standard of good taste and thereby have allowed a greater latitude of architectural beauty. thought and a greater degree of imagination. The author of the programme realized that perhaps it might have made for an even more this type of building was one not often en- interesting problem. If the somewhat inelastic THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES terms of the programme intimidated a number of possible contestants, or if the majority of de- signers lack initiative to solve an unfamiliar problem, we would consider it a most unfortu- nate augury for the future of the architectural profession. Eighty-four sets of drawings were submitted in the competition, and, while none of the designs was highly imaginative in conception nor strik- ingly original in character, yet a fair average. in plan and elevation was maintained, making the task of differentiation a not altogether agreeable or satisfying one to the Jury of Award, but mak- ing it a pleasure for the Jury to comment favor- ably upon several designs, which, in the process of selection, did not fall into the "Premiated" nor "Mention" classes. FIRST PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by An- tonio DiNardo and W. Frank Hitchens, of Pitts- burgh, Pa. Architecture, being a three-dimen- sional subject, cannot be considered otherwise, and, therefore, it becomes not a question of plan or elevation, but a question of plan and eleva- tion. This design had a well articulated plan which functioned admirably, and an elevation possessing the charm of light and shade and shadow. The "porch," both as a practical and as an .-esthetic feature, is attractive. SECOND PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by William D. Foster, of New York, N. Y. As be- tween the design placed first and that placed second, there was no great difference in merit. The ample sunlit corridor presents an attractive feature excelled by no competitor. The plan turns the most attractive elevation of the build- ing away from the Village Green. The location of the play rooms and their correlation with the out-of-door play spaces and toilets, the location of the special rooms with respect to the class rooms, are admirable features of this fine open plan. The one-story teachers' cottage is attractive exteriorly, but not well studied as to plan, the living room being turned, necessarily, into a run- way, interfering with its use as a center of social life. The kitchen is not any too well equipped with pantries or storage closets. THIRD PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by Chauncey F. Hudson, of Buffalo, N. Y. This plan fell into the interior corridor type, and so loses somewhat of the attractiveness of the first and second prize designs. Nor do the toilet and play rooms, as to arrangement, quite reach the standard set by those designs. The location of the special rooms — industrial arts and domestic science — is not as good as in the two preceding plans. The character of the exterior is rich in quiet, rural charm, lacking in too many of the designs submitted. FOURTH PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by Robbins L. Conn, of New York, N. Y. Like the design placed third, a long interior corridor was introduced into this design. The relation of the play rooms and toilets to the special rooms is good, as is also the correlation of the library and of the teachers' room with the class rooms. Also, like the third prize design, the elevations ade- quately express that which is most characteristic of rural surroundings, a leisurely charm. FIRST MENTION. Submitted by Alfred Cookman Cass, of New York, N. Y. SECOND MENTION. Submitted by David W. Carlson and Emil A. Lehti, of New York, N. Y. Of the designs to receive Mention, of which there were six, two seemed worthy of being given a definite place, and the Jury takes pleas- ure in according them this recognition. The First Mention is quite "academic" in design, that is, suggestive of the old "academies," yet rural in character; while the Second Mention has a decidedly free and picturesque quality. The in- terior .toilet in connection with the teachers' room in this design is a blemish in the plan which a bit of practical surgery might remove. The setting of the "academic" design is attrac- tive. MENTIONS. The four remaining designs to leceive mention were submitted by William J. Mooney and Harold A. Rich, of Boston, Mass.; Charles H. Dornbusch and Erick N. Kaeyer, New York, N. Y.; Leon H. Hoag, Bloomfield, N. J.; and Paul Hyde Harbach, Buffalo, N. Y. The design submitted by Messrs. Mooney and Rich was the simplest and most appropriate of the designs which featured a tower, of which there were six in the competition. The plan is compact and well arranged, its principal weak- ness, except for the cramped vestibule, lying in the dark corridor terminating in the toilet rooms rather than in points of light. An otherwise dark corridor may be saved and even made at- tractive by opening up the ends to the light. The design submitted by Messrs. Dornbusch and Kaeyer, while extremely attractive in its terraced approaches, suffers from a lack of rela- tionship between the wings, and a central feature which is attenuated and inadequate. The corri- dor is satisfying. Mr. Harbach's design is good of its type, with a well considered plan, and an {Continued on page twenty-four) A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL ■^^5 nird's Z>u€ Vcrspcctfvc of fRc Tropsrfy ^cjiGOjtor- A WHITE FINE / "HREE TEACH ERj RLIRAL SCHQ)L JIDE ELEVATION- FIRST PRIZE DESIGN, Detail Sheet Submitted by Antonio DiNardo and W. Frank Hitchens, Pittsburgh, Pa. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES 0/-j'E=? SECOND PRIZE DESIGN, Detail Sheet Submitted bv William D. Foster, New York, N. ^■. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL 1/ — n-r- ^- c r ^»j^^^^ ^^ ,^J%xp. __^ TK^r &/ibat/or. ^^^7'/l H^^//e P/nc ^V\Y\^a ^-^/y*^ J?^rj'icr^urff/yf/)oo/ - ''v/Mz/y// '■/v/'/A V'/7'V//////////// SECOND PRIZE DESIGN Submitted by William D. Foster, New York, N. \'. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES ^ ^^ ^^ 1 1 -=- -= — ' f 1 j 1 J- 3 _ 1 ' " 1 i T. ":5=^^= t& ENTRANCE DOOR JAMB COT TAGE DE TAILS L I I" r t ELEVATION OF ENT RA N C : E S I G N F WHITE PINE THREE TEACH URAL SCHOOL THIRD PRIZE DESIGN, Detail Sheet Submitted by Chauncey F. Hudson, Buffalo, N. Y. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL T rfil!^ ... ..ferJ" i 1 p^ = |:r3EB ' 'r^ llllitt' M I i^" II ^ ji ^,#1 1 ..... JI. E S I G N F' WHITE PINE THREE TEA CHE URAL SCHOOL THIRD PRIZE DESIGN Submitted by Chauncey F. Hudson, Buffalo, N. Y. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES CLtVATION or CNTRANO: efZ-XAIH COtyJlCC DESIGN FOR A WHITE PINE THREE TEACHEE EURAL SCHOTL FOURTH PRIZE DESIGN, Detail Sheet Submitted by Robbins L. Conn, New York, N. Y. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL ^^ fefeg^^P^^ag¥-.J.:,.x.^^^gg DESIGN roi A WHITE PINE THREE TEACHER RUEAL SCHOOL FOURTH PRIZE DESIGN Submitted bv Robbins L. Conn, New '^'ork, N. ^'. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES DESIGN FO]^. A WHITE PINE THIREE TEACHER- RPRAL Si FIRST MENTION, Detail Sheet Submitted by Alfred Cookman Cass, New York, N. Y. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL '3 1 ■# ll 1 il ^-^^ 111 ""^^^ A., DESIGN FOR. A WHITE PINE THREE TEACHEIL MJRAl SCHOOI FIRST MENTION Submitted by Alfred Cookman Cass, New York, N. Y. 14 THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL *■ - -A^fi^-J^" ;A''^^.'%MH -n. PERSPECTIVE i^iENERAL 5CHEME ■f'tp^:i-ik/ ^^*^;>«^ *?- -M<**"*'^*,«l^ PART BASEMENT PLAN SECOND MENTION, Detail Sheet Submitted h\- David W. Carlson and Emil A. Lehti, New York, N. Y. i6 THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES JMain EnfrdncG ©g/i^ W^^^rte -Pine Tfiree Teacher ^l^raJ Jchool MENTION, Detail Sheet Submitted by William J. Mooney and Harold A. Rich, Boston. Mass. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL 17 ^Sc; Front Ele^-Afion '^'"" •»,.-> =4:*: p_l -InL.-x. e^iHnlipi! i Fit/t Floof Plan Jlrccf" Elcvcitlon /tak o/f Toachsry Goito^ ©e/i§n for ^"AJ^itc Pine TTirec ^dcher 1^dl Jchool MENTION Submitted by William J. Mooney and Harold A. Rich, Boston, Mass. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL 19 ^ 0) < J2 CO tJ — N- uJ a H ^ z H= Z U-1 THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES \l ; 1 - rT A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL a: X THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES DE^i^rtJor a) WHITE PINE THREE TEACHER RORAL SCHOOL^ '■;_ |p]j ^ ^ fi e^ST Flooe, Plan TLACHEE,3 COTTAGE 5ECOMD Floje, Plan MENTION, Detail Sheet Submitted by Paul Hyde Harbach, Buffalo, N. Y. A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL 23 ^ Jif':'!n^ ^■i i ' '" ' '''"^* '''*''*'*«"wlli§|^ ^^-"^^^ WHITE PINE THREE TEACHER ^ i.~h:^.4 l^..p ^ """"^ i^ ^4 [ill -^ ' •-■*' □ [J^ MENTION Submitted by Paul Hyde Harbach, Buffalo, N. Y. THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES exterior well balanced, but not too replete with points of interest. Mr. Leon H. Hoag's design, concluding the list of those to receive mention, has many good points in plan, together with an exterior which would have been much more at- tractive and effective had its rather senemic porch been made to hold its own with the un- necessarily expansive grouped windows of the corridor. These ten designs noted above and recognized with prizes and mentions were not alone in merit among the eighty-four exhibits. It may not be invidious to mention certain others, which, while not reaching the standard set by the "Premiated" and "Mentioned" designs, in the matter of exterior treatment and in the character of the block plans present school-house and cot- tage plans almost, if not quite, on a par with those submitted by their more fortunate com- petitors. Thus, the design submitted by Ralph H. Hannaford, of Boston, Mass., presents a plan with a sunlit corridor and terraced forecourt which functioned most satisfactorily. Its exterior seemed to be too monumental in character to fit the material and the conditions. A plan in a manner similar, though not so attractively pre- sented nor conceived, was submitted by George Marshall Martin, of Louisville, Ky. Messrs. Wicks and Hopkins and Ernest Crimi, of Buf- falo, N. Y., submitted a compact plan, with an interior corridor, which develops into a too austered and shadeless exterior. The scheme presented by Messrs. Ralph T. Walter and Fred R. Lorenz, of New York, N. Y., has an interior, end lighted, spacious corridor, with well ar- ranged rooms. The open porches in connection with the play rooms might well have been adopted by others. The absence of a teachers' toilet, called for in the programme, is a fault. A review of the designs discloses the fact, or the seeming fact, that previous issues of the White Pine publications have been studied to some effect. What has been presented in pre- vious competitions, as well as what has been built of white pine from Colonial times down, has made its impress. The general uniformity in the designs betokens a subservience to tradi- tion which rather has hindered the flow of origi- nality which competitions of this character might well be counted upon to bring out. James O. Betelle Wm. B. Ittner Guy Lowell Arthur I. Meigs Irving K. Pond, Chairman Jury ■ of Award List of Members of THE NORTHERN PINE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN W. T. Bailey Lumber Company Virginia, Minn. Cloquet Lumber Company Cloquet, Minn. Crookston Lumber Company Headquarters Minneapolis, Minn. Mills Bemidji, Minn. Johnson-Wentworth Company Cloquet, Minn. The J. Neils Lumber Company Cass Lake, Minn. The Northern Lumber Company Cloquet, Minn. Northern Pole & Lumber Company .... Duluth, Minn. RusT-OwEN Lumber Company Drummond, Wis. Shevlin-Clarke Company, Ltd. Headquarters Minneapolis, Minn. Mill Fort Frances, Ont. The Virginia & Rainy Lake Company .... Virginia, Minn. List of Members of THE ASSOCIATED WHITE PINE MANUFACTURERS OF IDAHO Blackwell Lumber Company Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Bonners Ferry Lumber Company Bonners Ferry, Idaho Dover Lumber Company Dover, Idaho HuMBiRD Lumber Company Sandpoint, Idaho McGoLDRicK Lumber Company Spokane, Wash. Milwaukee Land Company St. Joe, Idaho Panhandle Lumber Company Spirit Lake, Idaho Potlatch Lumber Company Potlatch, Idaho Roselake Lumber Company Roselake, Idaho Edward Rutledge Timber Company Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Winton Lumber Company Gibbs, Idaho Any information desired regarding White Pine will be furnished by any member of either Association or by the WHITE PINE BUREAU Merchants Bank Building, Saint Paul, Minnesota Representing The Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and The Associated White Pine Manufacturers of Idaho ^ .^^o^