Gisborne Buildings

Progress, Volume X, Issue 1, 1 September 1914, Page 23

Gisborne Buildings

The buildings illustrated below Avere designed by Mr. P. H. Graham (late Graham & Brown) Architect, Gisborne. - The upper one is the Gisborne High School and lias been in occupation about three years. It provides for an Assembly Hall 66ft. x 32ft. The school

interior walls are rimu pannelled dadoes, finished above with ivory cement Universal finish. The roofs are covered with asbestos slates. The building is heated throughout with hot water apparatus and cost about £4,500.; The Eectory a half-timbered gabled residence cost £2,500. The Illustration No. 2 is of a house in Gisborne by the same architect. It stands on the brow of a hill and enjoys one of the most extensive views in the neighbourhood. The house contains eight

and Rectory stand in six acres of ground, the former having a frontage of 144 ft. with two wings of 86ft. and 82ft. Walls of brick, relieved with cementstucco base etc. The entrance with vestibule leads to spacious corridor left and right opening into Class Rooms, Library, Head-master's rooms etc., while two wings are devoted to Assistant Masters' room, various class rooms, Science room 32ft. x 24ft, The

rooms, lounge hall (pannelled in rimu), nursery, two sleeping balconies. The kitchen walls are of asbestos sheets enamelled. Other walls tinted with "Duresco," the ceilings are asbestos. ; ;• ''•■••' ' The third illustration shows an interior, the walls of which are treated with burlap canvas pannelled. The ceilings are plastered and covered with hydrated lime. • The furniture is in "keeping with the scheme.