. Pennsylvania Female College Catalogue . A A—Chapel. B B—Scientiflc ;—Office of the —Art Room. -Main Kloor. yj-Parlor. 7^/F/—Corridors. ei—Vestibule. //—Library. /—Lunch —^Veranda. The College grounds embrace between ten and eleven acres, on the southeastborder of the city, comprising an eminence which commands one of the finestviews imaginable, of both city and country, for miles around. For beauty ofsituation, for taste displayed in improvement, and for healtlifulness, tlie locationcannot be surpassed, and is rarely equaled. 42 Penn
. Pennsylvania Female College Catalogue . A A—Chapel. B B—Scientiflc ;—Office of the —Art Room. -Main Kloor. yj-Parlor. 7^/F/—Corridors. ei—Vestibule. //—Library. /—Lunch —^Veranda. The College grounds embrace between ten and eleven acres, on the southeastborder of the city, comprising an eminence which commands one of the finestviews imaginable, of both city and country, for miles around. For beauty ofsituation, for taste displayed in improvement, and for healtlifulness, tlie locationcannot be surpassed, and is rarely equaled. 42 Pennsylvania Female College. The nuiin Iniilding is of the Gothic order of architecture, built of brick, andstands upon the most commanding point of the grounds. Tlie main frontextends ninety-six feet, facing Fiftli Avenue, while tlie eastern front extendsone hundred and forty feet, with a wing sixty-two feet in depth, embracing theschool Iooms and students apartments. I^IBDE. A A—Presidents —Bath —Cedar Closet. Second. Floor. D i?—Spare S^—Passages. ///—Bath ^Students Rooms. The whole house is three stories in height, and contains upwards of sixtyapartments. The accompanying plans show the relations and uses of the severalapartments. The building is supplied with gas throughout, and hot and coldwater on each floor. The rooms and lialls are comfortably warmed hy means ofsteam radiators, and thorough ventilation is provided for by a system of fluesconnecting with every room in the building. All the rooms are neatly carpeted and furnished, and are arranged for thegreatest ease of communication. Pennsylvania Female College. 43 The whole buikling has been constructed and furnished with a view to thegreatest possible coinfort of its inmates, and the friends of the institution canconfidently point to it as aflV)r(ling superior advantages for the purposes forwliicli it lias been intended.
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