Public education in the city of New York: its history, conditionAnd statistics . ng. The capacity of these buildings was for about ten or elevenhundred pupils. The accompanying diagrams, representing Public School No. 17 (now Grammar School No. 16), onWest Thirteenth Street, in the Ninth Ward, will give a gen-eral idea of the arrangements of the floors of such a buildingas has been described; but this being the last but one of thebuildings erected by the late Public School Society, has em-braced in it many improvements that were not to be foundin the earlier buildings, not the least important
Public education in the city of New York: its history, conditionAnd statistics . ng. The capacity of these buildings was for about ten or elevenhundred pupils. The accompanying diagrams, representing Public School No. 17 (now Grammar School No. 16), onWest Thirteenth Street, in the Ninth Ward, will give a gen-eral idea of the arrangements of the floors of such a buildingas has been described; but this being the last but one of thebuildings erected by the late Public School Society, has em-braced in it many improvements that were not to be foundin the earlier buildings, not the least important of which isthe abandonment of the under-ground basement, the provid-ino-of one or two more class-rooms, and the adoption of stair-cases having frequent landings. Such buildings, being ofsmall size, were not as economical as they might at flrst required a large number of buildings for a moderatenumber of pupils; and were the same sort of economicalviews to prevail now, and school-houses to be built upon theplans just considered, it would require for the accommodation. GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE NO, 16. (Formerly Public School No. 17.)THIRTEENTH STREET, NEAR THE SEVENTH AVENUE.
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