J. P. McCaskey High School – Lancaster PA

Description

“This high school occupies a site of 35 acres. Large play areas, 7 fields for games, 6 tennis courts, and 12 handball courts, as well as a stadium seating 2,626 and bleachers seating 1,000, are part of the plant.

The building accommodates 2,500 pupils. The academic, commercial, and science departments are in the wings on the left; and the shops, domestic science, and art departments on the right, with the auditorium and gymnasium between them. There are 52 standard and 30 special classrooms, a library seating 250, and a cafeteria with a capacity of 625.

The construction is fireproof. Exterior walls are red brick with limestone trim and lead-coated copper spandrels between windows. It was completed in February 1938 at a construction cost of $1,166,121 and a project cost of $1,383,020.”