From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2/26/1912, p. 3, c. 4

…Another matter of interest to come before the Finance Committee to-night is the plans for the new Bellevue School, to be erected on the recently acquired Van Lew property, at Twenty-fourth and Grace Streets. While the lowest bid submitted on the building is $95,000, thus apparently coming within the estimates, it develops that this does not include the heating and ventilating, the architect’s fees, and other costs which bring the total, if the building is erected along the present lines, to $122,000, which some members of the committee hold to be excessive. It may be that the plans will be turned back to the architects, Carneal & Johnson, for revision. Members of the committee argue that the section is already entirely built up, and that its population will not increase, and that to erect so large a building at this point will result in diverting attendance from the districts served by East End and Chimborazo Schools, especially as it is planned shortly to replace East End School with a larger and more modern building, that being located in a section in which more growth of population may be reasonably expected.

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