SCIENCE 



NEW YORK, MAY 13, 1892. 



THE NEW CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF THE CASE 



SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE. 



With the rapidly increasing' attendance in all institutions 

 of learning, it is hazardous to plan buildings for educational 

 purposes with only sufficient room for present needs or for 

 prospective growth in the immediate future. Every pros- 

 perous institution has abundant evidence of this fact in the 

 necessity for enlarging buildings that a dozen years ago or 

 less were regarded as ample in their accommodations, or in 



extension, especially in the earlier years of a school of science. 

 The building was therefere given a plain, rectangular form, 

 and it was found Ihat extension of the main hall into a wing 

 of any size would not interfere with a convenient arrange- 

 ment of the rooms for present use. 



As shown in the plans two stories are included beside a 

 high basement and an attic floor. Each story is 16' high, and 

 the attic is the equivalent of another story, through the aid 

 of large dormer windows, leaving still an ample space 

 above for general storage. The basement is 13' high, and 

 the floor 4' 6" below grade. An elevator, capable of carrying; 

 a load of several hundred pounds, connects with all the 

 floors above the basement. 



Laboratory Case School Applied Science, Cleveland," Ohio. 



Buff Amherst Stone. S. R. Badgley, Architect, Cleveland, Ohio, 



the overcrowded condition of those that do not admit of 

 extension. This is especially true of the chemical labora- 

 tory, in which within fifteen years the demand for practical 

 instruction has increased several fold. In some respects 

 provision for prospective enlargement is not consistent with 

 the best construction of a laboratory, yet with the necessity 

 of providing for elementary laboratory training of large 

 freshmen classes still rapidly increasing in numbers, it would 

 be unwise not to include ample provision for future growth. 

 In devising plans for this laboratory, while I felc that it 

 was not good economy to construct a building several times 

 larger than present needs demanded, I was impressed with 

 the importance of providing for the possibility of unlimited 



The outside walls of the building are of Amherst sand- 

 stone, with all inside surfaces of stock brick laid in red mor- 

 tar, except within the hoods a special form of vitrified brick 

 is laid. The basement floor is of Portland cement through- 

 out, and the quantitative and general laboratories have 

 floors of asphalt laid 1^" thick. All flues for hood ventila- 

 tion are built into the cross-partition walls, the outside wall 

 carrying the inlet flues for room ventilation to the basement,, 

 where they are connected by a 14" iron pipe, shown by the 

 dotted lines near the outside wall, to the blower in the motor 

 room. The position of the three horse-power motor, blower, 

 counter-shaft, and a steam coil for heating the air when 

 necessary are shown in this room. A large tubular boiler 



