 Special features of the building included a gymnasium boasting "one entire wall of glass windows" and an auditorium that was to be the "best equipped and best lighted" in the district, with footlights and a separately ventilated orchestra pit.A theater organ was later placed in the pit and pipes put in special lofts on the third level.The September 1928, "Dallas Herald" said the school "presents a rare spectacle from afar."