Annual Report, Volume 39 (Google eBook); Cincinnati (Ohio).
Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools; 1868 – Cincinnati, Ohio
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The annual report includes a detailed description of the building:
The report also included the following drawings of the building:This building is 66 feet wide by 112 in length all the exterior line of the walls; is four stories high above the cellar on the front and west sides, three stories high above the coal cellars, for two rooms in length, on the east side of the hall. It has six outside entrances; has one principal stairway from each of the main entrances, and one flight of stairs from the west side to the first main floor. The stairs are of iron, supported in the walls, and have neat hand-rails on each side. The building has 21 school rooms, and an office for the Principal. The front rooms in the fourth story can be thrown into one by means of a rising partition. The Janitor has three rooms. All the school-rooms, but the three in the basement, have wardrobes, which are entered from the rooms only. Two rooms marked" C," on the basement plan, are for coal and changeable furniture. There is a cellar beneath all but the two last named rooms. Seats are provided for 1,200 pupils.The heating is done by JOHN GROSSIUS’ “New Patent School-house Stove,” supplied with a cold-air flue taken into the heater between the joists of the room, lined with zinc. Provision is also made for warming by "indirect" radiation by steam-pipe coils in chambers, or by furnaces. Each room has two flues, 8 by 16 inches, lined with tin, furnished with 10 by 16 registers, to convey the warm air, should this method of warming be used-one ventilating flue, 12 by 21 inches, in the walls, lined with flooring, and neat pannel work in the rooms, finishing on the roof with Emerson's ejecting ventilators. In the rooms these flues connect with platforms that have neatly perforated risers for the exit of the air at the floors in cold weather, and have sliding valves moved by cord and pulley at the ceiling of the room for the escape of the warm foul air.Fourteen school-rooms have light from their two external walls, seven school-rooms have one outside wall, and receive the light from one side only. The walls from the bottom of the water-table are built with brick. The dressings and weatherings are of free-stone, cornice of galvanized iron; the roof is of Vermont slate, flashings of lead, lightning rods of copper. The plastering on the walls is finished under the float, and colored and blocked to imitate granite. The surface of the lot, inside of the fence walls, equals 1,700 square yards, and is paved with brick. The surface of the lot in the rear of the house is elevated nearly fifteen feet above Liberty street, and is reached by flights of stone steps, as shown on basement plan. -Annual Report, Volume 39 (Google eBook); Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools; 1868 – Cincinnati, Ohio
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In 1914, the Rothenberg School was ready to accept all the students from the First District School. However, the building did not remain vacant for long. It became the Boys' Special School, used for vocational training. In 1918, it was used to house soldiers training for World War I.
Cincinnati Enquirer (1872-1922); Jul 25, 1918; pg. 9;
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Cincinnati Enquirer (1872-1922); Sep 10, 1918; p. 5;
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Cincinnati Enquirer; Dec. 1, 1945; Sec. 2, p. 1
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Cincinnati Enquirer; Dec. 1, 1945; Sec 2, p. 1
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Cincinnati Post; Apr. 20, 1946; p. 9
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Cincinnati Post; Apr. 4, 1980; p. 1B
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