Your favor of the 24th ult. enclosing letter from Bro. Udall,
of St. Johns, concerning a Stake Academy building, was duly
received, and your instruction in relation to it taken into
careful consideration. As they want it also for a lecturehall,
to hold their quarterly conferences in, and both purposes re-
quire different sizes it will be necessary to erect a twostory
building, the groundfloor for the school, and the upper
story for the Hall. At 500 occupants with entrances, circles,
stage or rostrum, it will have to contain 8100 squ ft, or
60 x 120. from corner to corner outside. Enclosed rough
design will explain my ideas, which every Architect or
experienced mastermechanic can execute in a more scien-
tific manner.
Hoping to have met the meaning of your instructions,
I remain in obedience and faith
Your favor of the 24th ult., enclosing letter from Brother Udall in regard a Stake Academy building was duly re -
ceived, and enclosed please find a suggestive rough
sketch, as I have been able to adjust the required items
in my mind. A Lectureroom for Stake Conference pur-
poses, to hold about 500 people, and premises for
an Academy are so widely different in their nature
of operation, that I could find no other plan suitable,
but by separating them into a lower and upper story.
The classrooms below have been designed on the prin-
ciple of 16 sq ft. to the pupil, which allows sufficient
room for aisles, recitation place before blackboard
and teacher's desk. I have located no windows,
leaving that to the building committee to determine,
in regard to their number, size, and form, all of which
depend upon their taste and extent of means. Any
good mechanic can construct the building or its [general]
plan after these rough Specifications.
Please to parden me for not answering any sooner,
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but in consequence of my bodily indisposition a short
time ago, and of several Highcouncilmeetings last
week, I had been thrown behind in my work more
than I could conveniently dispose of at the proper
time. My health being fully restored, however, I am
able to attend now again with the help of God to everything
that may be required of my hands.
With constant prayers for your welfare I remain
Your brother in the Gospel Karl G. Maeser