JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIX August, 1918 ; No. 223 
THE SCHOOL GARDEN SHELTER HOUSE GIVEN BY 
MRS. FREDERICK FERRIS THOMPSON 
Among the gifts for construction and development obtained 
last year by the Endowment Committee of the Board of Managers 
was one of $4,000 by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, for the con- 
struction of the School Garden Shelter House at the southern 
end of the School Garden, overlooking the Long Lake.* Ex 
vation for foundations for this shelt ter was commenced in , the 
tiles for roofin ee in July, 1918 
Plans and eae drawn fee sya John R. Brinley 
and Louis F. Bird, were submitted to contractors in the summer 
of 1917, but satisfactory bids were not obtained, and it was then 
$3,200; the lowest bid we co btain for the same wor 
$3,950 he balance of Mrs. Thompson’s gift, about $800, has 
been utilized for path approaches to the ter, for water con- 
nections to it, and for the drainage, regulation and grading of 
* Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 18: 125. June, 1917. 
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