From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1/23/1912, p. 12, c. 2

CONTRACT GOES TO J. T. NUCKOLS
New Bellevue Public School Will Be Ready for Opening One Year Hence.

Bids were opened last night for the new Bellevue public school building, to be erected on the Van Lew property, recently acquired by the city, embracing the entire block between Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Grace and Franklin Streets, and contract was recommended to the Council for award to the lowest bidder, J. T. Nuckols, for $97,607. The plans adopted by the School Board are by Carneal & Johnson, and call for the most complete and up-to-date elementary school building in the city, being in some details superior to the recently erected William F. Fox School on Hanover Avenues. The building besides twenty-four full-sized class rooms, will have an assembly hall or auditorium seating 1,000 people, which it is proposed to make a general gathering place for all manner of meetings of a public character held on Church Hill.

Bids were submitted as follows:

H. L. Driscoll, $115,000; A. C. Bedford, $102,000; E. C. Woodward, $110,686; James Fox & Sons, $106,974; W. A. Chesterman, $106,000; John T. Wilson, $105,000; J. T. Nuckols, $97,607; Harwood & Moss, $107,911; Wise Granite Company, $111,980; H. L. Matthews, $113,974; A. C. Houston, $132,098. No check was enclosed with the bid of A. M. Walkup, and it was not received.

Bids for heating and ventilating were opened as follows: S. A. Gregory, $11,645; Peck-Hammond Company, $11,682; American Heating and Ventilating Company, $9,610.

Bids for plumbing were: C. Manning Company, $7,695; W. F. Mahoney & Company, $8,242.73; Carle & Marsale, $8,626.

The board forwarded the plans to the City Council, with the recommendation that contract be awarded to J. T. Nuckols for the building, The American Heating and Ventilating Company for the heating and ventilating systems, and to the C. Manning Company for plumbing, these being the lowest bidders in each case.

The papers will be offered in the Council to-night for reference to the Committee on Finance, the new building being a part of a definitely agreed upon plan for replacing the older school buildings of the city. Superintendent J. A. C. Chandler urged that prompt action be taken, that work might be under way by the opening of spring weather. It is expected that the new building will be finished by January 1 next, and that it can be equipped and furnished, ready for the opening of Bellevue School in new quarters at the beginning of the mid-term of February, 1913.

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