Cornelia Henderson Elementary School, built all the way back as a private school in 1888, has its original structure piece with a second pre-k addition built exactly a century later, and an out-of-place iPad Lab in 2015. The iPad Lab looks like something Apple would build
Panel
EST QuickStart replacing an older Edwards System, which replaced the Pull Rod one. Annunciator is at the main doorway.
Simplex 4010 tied into the QuickStart panel in 2010
Simplex 4010ES
Notification Appliances
The most common alarm in the school is the Amseco BZ-54VT motor horn with the RSD-24 strobe screwed in. These are installed in most hallways, the gym, and the theatre room (connected to the gym). Larger classrooms and the other hallways have EST Integrity horn/strobes, except the older computer lab which has two EST Genesis horn/strobes. Regular classrooms, bathrooms and small-mid spaces have either Integrity or Genesis strobes. One white Wheelock Exceder strobe can be found in a classroom moved from the iPad Lab replacing a broken Integrity Strobe. When the pull rod system was in place, there were a couple Autocall Bells that did 4-4-4-4 installed in the hallways and gym. The one in the gym is still there.
The 1988 addition has Simplex 2901-9833s in 2903 strobe plates installed in the hallways, while classrooms have Simplex 4904-9001s and bathrooms have Simplex 4904-9137s. 4 classrooms that were combined to be a mini iPad lab have two Simplex 59AV-WRF horn/strobes at both side walls, with 59VOs in the smaller rooms. There is only one Simplex 4903-9105 with a 4901-9846 horn/strobe-plate in the middle of the left hallway. Some of the classrooms and bathrooms have Simplex TrueAlert strobes.
The iPad lab has ceiling mounted Wheelock Exceeder horn/strobes and strobes, with most rooms having wall-mounted horn/strobes and strobes. One room has a strobe missing from the back used in a classroom in the main building. Bathrooms have ceiling strobes.
Throughout all three buildings, there are also SpectrAlert Advance Bluepoint police alarms installed throughout the hallways and in classrooms above the doorway. Most classrooms in the original building do not have these, so do some hallways.
Initiating Devices
In the original building, there is only one pull rod in a sub-hallway that was configured to activate the modern fire alarm system. Everything else are mostly Edwards 270-SPOs, with a few old ones located near the pull rod area (very unrenovated area), and in renovated areas there are EST SIGA-270s. Smokes are almost all SIGA-PS’, though a few Edwards EC10U-3s can also be found.
The pulls in the addition are either Simplex 2099 or 4099 single action T-Bars, and all the smoke detectors are TrueAlarm. There are, however 4099s dual action T-bars by the exit doors.
In the iPad Lab, every pull is a Simplex 4099-9003 with a Stopper II lift cover, and every Smoke is a Simplex TrueAlarm.
Other Essentials
The PA system is a Rauland Telecenter U tied into an older Dukane intercom system for the main building and the newer Bogen system for the Lab and extension. The most common speakers are circular or square Rauland speakers found in hallways, bathrooms, and classrooms, although in some areas there are vintage Dukane wooden speakers found in both hallways and classrooms. The iPad lab and the addition both have regular ceiling circular speakers in the hallways and wall square speakers in the classrooms. Every classroom has an emergency call switch.
The Clock system is a massive Primex Smart-Sync system replacing an Edwards system, installed quite recently. Clocks are all Primex Education Series 12.5”s, with dual-sided clocks in the hallways and mounted clocks in the classrooms, gym, kitchen, wherever else duel clocks are unneeded. All the other components (OneVue, etc) are found in the school control room.
The bell is a tone over the PA. Any and all other bells have since been removed, but the original school dinging bell from when the building was built has been placed on a large shelf, and occasionally gets used during school assemblies.