February 14, 2011

 

 

This is the view from the new high school commons area.

 

 

In the process of digging the new sanitary sewer the contractor found  a large number of buried stones and brick.  These could have been part of the remains from the original school building after the fire.  Or they might be the remains from the Sloyd building that was on the campus in the early 1900s.  This building was located near this area.  Sloyd was  taught to elementary students as a precursor to vocational classes.

Sloyd was an educational method used in the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s, the training focused on elementary progressive paper, wood working or sewing projects. Increasing the students skills one step at a time.  CSDB appeared to have focused on the woodworking and sewing as preparation for more advanced vocational classes.

 

This is on the south end of the building, the contractor will be removing the windows and cutting in new openings where  the windows are now.  The openings will be used to get debris out of the basement.  After construction these doors will open to assessment rooms off of the speech language room.