Ilion High School - Class of 1964

Herkimer Evening Telegram - July 7, 1964

Demolition At School Nears End

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photo caption - ALL THAT REMAINED yesterday of the fire-damaged sections of Ilion High School was small piles of rubble being loaded into trucks in the former basement rooms, as demolition operations went into the final week. Bids for contracts to construct the $1,281,000 building on this same site will be opened at 8 p.m. Friday by the Ilion Central School Board.

Demolition At School Nears End

ILION - United Contractors Co., Utica, completing demolition operations at the fire - damaged Ilion High School yesterday, with this week as target date to finish the $16,300 razing project.

Samuel Cittadino, partner in the company, said all walls are down and the last of the debris will be carted away in a "few days." The razed sections were badly damaged in the April, 1963, fire, which claimed the life of Fireman Burton T. Seymour.

Demolition clears the way for the new $1,281,000 re-construction. The Ilion Central School Board will open bids at 8 p.m. Friday in the high school cafeteria for heating, ventilation, plumbing, electrical and general contract work. Specifications were recently finished by Myron Jordan, Richfield Springs architect, and approved by the board.

The new junior-senior high school received taxpayer approval in February. It will expand 34 existing regular and special classrooms to 58, and include a 659-pupil auditorium and other facilities geared to accommodate 1,300 junior and senior high school students in the present and new rooms on the Weber Ave. site.

Meanwhile, the school board has rented space in Sperry Rand Plant 3 for September to provide temporary classroom space for about 225 elementary pupils