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The size of this building is thirty by forty feet on the outside story thirteen feet high in the clear, and pitch of roof twelve feet. This plan requires no specification. It is a frame building weather boarded vertically The cave and ou side finish of door and window heads, will be found in plate No. 1, Architectural Details.' The cost according to this plan in Pennsylvania, without a cellar, seven hundred dollars.

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The drawings and plan now presented are for a building of less size but more substantial material and better finish, and consequently of greater cost, than the last. it is laid out for sixty four Pupils, none of whom should be seated on each side of the Teacher, where the extended platform and blackboard ought always to be.

This building, while it contain all the requisites for a complete primary school, presents a chaste and beautiful outside appearance. Embowered in trees and surrounded with flowers, it will ornament any situation, and after the schools shall have been regularly graded, such a school house will continue, for generations, to be a sitting and attractive place of resort for early childhood.

SPECIFICATIONS.

The size of this building is twenty-six by forty feet on the outside, thirteen feet high in the clear, and pitch of roof six feet. Material stone.

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The cellar will be excavated under the building, as in No. 1, with entrance &c., and foundation trenches for the porch two feet below the surface of the ground.

The cellar walls will be twenty inches thick up to the line of the base, and above sixteen inches, excepting that the pilasters will project two inches, making them eighteen inches thick. The walls will be dashed on the inside, but on the the outside they will be rough casted in a complete manner, and laid off in blocks, in immitation of cut stone. The mortar to be of clear, sharp sand, and wood burnt lime-that for the inside to be well haired. The inside walls will be plastered without lathing, and the partitions and ceiling will be done as in plan No. 1. The inside jambs of the windows will be plastered and the angles rounded. A cut stone door Bill will be required for the front door, twelve inches on the top face, eight inches rise.

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The rafters will be heeled against a raising piece, and every third one will project to form supports for the eave, and will be smoothly dressed. Cantilevers will be framed into the outer rafters, to support the barge over the gables. The rafters will be hoarded and prepared for metal covering. A cupola will be made according to the plan, and well secured on the roof,-it will be prepared for a bell, and also arranged for a ventilator, and will be put in connection with the ventiduct. The window frames will be made plank front or casing, and all double boxed; sash one and a half inches thick, and hung with the best axle pulleys, cord and weights. Shutters will be made one and a half inches thick, bead and butt on one side, flat panel and moulding on the other, bung with straps and hooks, and secured with ten inch shutter bolts; the sub-sills will be of heart pine. The floors, wainscoting, jambs and dressing of doors, closets, platform, black-board, outside steps, cellar door and steps, will be as in the preceding plans. Slats or rails four inches wide, for hooks or pins to suspend maps, will be inserted round the inside wall, at such height as the Directers shall order. A ventiduct will be made eight by twenty-four inches in the clear, inserted in the wall, smoothly plastered on the inside, and prepared with grounds to receive the front of the duct, which will be of sound inch boards secured firmly against the grounds before mentioned; openings will be made top and bottom with covers to each, made to shut at pleasure. The duct will be continued over to the cupola, and connected with it in the loft, the joints made air tight.

TIN ROOFING.

The roof, cupola, and pent house over the front door, will be overlaid with the best cross leaded tin, put on standing grooves, and well cleated to the boards, to be painted on the upper side two coats, the first coat to be red lead.

PAINTING AND GLAZING.

All the wood work usually painted, will be painted three coats of pure white lead and linseed oil, and finished in plain colors as directed. All the sash to be glazed with the best American glass, well bedded, bradded and puttied. The size to be twelve by sixteen inches, eighteen lights in each frame.

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The size of this building is thirty by forty feet on the outside, story thirteen feet high in the clear, and pitch of roof nine feet. A specification will be given only where it differs from the preceding plans, the interior arrangements and style of work being nearly the same.

SPECIFICATION.

The materials of the walls will be brick; the excavations will be the same as in the last, and the cellar walls built up to the level of the ground, eighteen inches thick, with cellar door-way and window openings secured with iron guards. A cut stone door sill will be required for the front door, welve inches on the top face and eight inches rise. The walls from the surface of the ground upwards will be of brick; the outside four inches, to be the best quality dark stretchers with the joint smoothly struck; the

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