The Border Cities Star
Saturday, August 31, 1929
Named For Late Hon. William Costello Kennedy,
It is of Late Gothic Architecture;
Total Cost $750,000; 11 Acre Site
CONTAINING 41 major rooms, ranging in size from 12 by 12 feet to 110 by 65 feet, the new Hon. W. C. Kennedy Collegiate Institute, Windsor, to cost when completed and equipped more than $750,000, is one of the finest collegiate buildings in Canada. Cameron & Ralston, Windsor architects, designed the magnificent institution.
On 11 Acre Site
Situated on a, beautiful 11acre site which is supplemented In the front of the school facing Tecumseh Boulevard by an additional three acres of parkland, the Kennedy Collegiate is set back a distance of 400 feet from this main border highway and lends to the boulevard much of Its beauty in that section of Windsor.
The general style of architecture adopted in the collegiate building is late Gothic, a style that renders more striking the ultimate beauty of Windsor's newest and greatest educational building. The main feature on the entrance front of the collegiate is a group of three pointed arches surmounted by three orieLs, corbelled out from the face of the building, while divided with mullions and trasoms which are terminated In cusped heads.
Crowning the windows which surmounted the main entrance is a concentrated decoration of late Gothic ornament with a carved cheneau. Back of the carving the orleLs terminate in flats of stone, effectively contrasting with the elaboration of the carving.
Flanking the oriel windows are two long pointed Gothic windows with deep moulded reveals and carved paterae. All of these windows are filled with leaded glass, the group lighting the most Important room in the collegiate.
Effectively Simple
The effective simplicity of the library Interior brings to Windsor the type of architecture found in the ancient seats of learning, such as Oxford and Cambridge, England.
In the main section of the collegiate and entirely separate from the physical training building, there are 41 rooms in addition to lavatories and corridors. Of these, 19 are spacious classrooms, each measuring 30 by, 23 feet. Other rooms, and their dimensions. Include the art room, 32 by 23 feet: four laboratories, each 36 by 33 feet; two lecture rooms, each 23 by 20: two equipment rooms, each 23 by 12: schoC library, 60 by 24; two teachers' rooms, each 20 by 12; doctor's room, 12 by 12; dentist's room, 12 by 12; school office, 20 by 20: principal's room, 16 by 12: two dining rooms for teachers, each 18 by 18; school cafeteria, 110 by 65 and two bicycle parkir rooms in basement each measuring 60 by 73 feet.
The architect points out that the present larg cafeteria will eventually be trensformed into six future classrooms, making 25 classrooms in all when these are required.
The large rear part of ihe Kennedy Collegiate development is cL.vcted en. tirely to the purposes of a physical training building and may be said to be the equal of any such building in Canada.
