Chapter 35 cont. ADDITIONS NEEDED In 1874 more children came to No. 1 than could be cared for and an addition was ordered to contain four school rooms and two recitation rooms, making it a ten room building. The stone school building No. 2 also suffered enlargement in 1870 by an addition on the south side which doubled its size and made of it a ten room building. Subdistrict No. 3 also grew in population and six rooms were added about 1870 on the north side of the older building. Later the filling of Sixth street made the two lower rooms on the north unservicable. The territory around No. 4 grew steadily in population. In 1877-78 the first addition was made to the six room building. A wing with two rooms, one above another was added, forming what is still the southeast corner of the house. Nine years later the old building having become untenantable, a similar wing of two rooms was added to the newer structure on the southwest corner. Only the upper room was used for a schoolroom for some years, as the lower one was occupied by the heating plant. Later the boiler was lowered and the room made available for school purposes. In the summer of 1898 the building was remodeled and emerged from teh transformation an eleven room building with two recitation rooms and a teacher's room. The remodeling brought about a greatly improved arrangement of the building. The first school added to the original six above noted was No. 7, a one story two room frame building situated in Black Hawk at the western end of Davenport. The attendance was from thirty to forty pupils and all the grades were taught by one teacher. When the scholars reached fifth grade, they were transferred t oNo. 5. This building was continued in use until 1897, when the new No. 7, now the Van Buren school, was opened at Hancock and Lincoln avenues and the scholars were transferred to this school and the old building fell into disuse. The new No. 7 is a handsome up-to-date modern school building of ten rooms and two recitation rooms, a teachers' room and principal's room, of which the people of western Davenport are vastly proud. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/