The Massachusetts state record and year book of general information .. . or the accommodation of different classes, and fordifferent purposes, in the different stories, is 200 feet by 50, and 50feet high, i. e. twice the dimensions of the north and south wings,and four times the dimensions of the superintendents house. Thenorth, east, and west wings have three stories, each 12 feet high,above the basement, and beneath the attic. The attic is 9^- feet high,and the basement 8J- feet high. The south wing is four finishedstories high, and the floors of these stories are uniform with those ofthe th
The Massachusetts state record and year book of general information .. . or the accommodation of different classes, and fordifferent purposes, in the different stories, is 200 feet by 50, and 50feet high, i. e. twice the dimensions of the north and south wings,and four times the dimensions of the superintendents house. Thenorth, east, and west wings have three stories, each 12 feet high,above the basement, and beneath the attic. The attic is 9^- feet high,and the basement 8J- feet high. The south wing is four finishedstories high, and the floors of these stories are uniform with those ofthe three other wings. The circular towers attached to the exteriorwall of the north, east, and west wings, are each 65 feet high and 13feet in diameter. References. 1. Family Parlors. 2. Directors room. 3. Supeiintendents Entry. 4. Vestibule. 5. Entrance toKeepersHouse. 6. Archway Entrance. 7. Coal Drops. 8. Entrance to andStairs to Basement. 9. Ventilating &. hot-airFlues. 10. Great Kitchen. 11. Inspectors Room. 12. Exercising, or Day 13. Eating Rooms for lying-inWomen. 14. Eating Rooms for healthyand working Women. 15. Eating Rooms for old andinfirm men. 16. Eating Rooms for workingand healthy men. 17. Bakery and dry store-room. 18. Balhing and cloihes-room. 19. Ironing and drying-room. 20. Water Closets. (In towers.) 21 and 23. Stairways. 22 and 24. Steps &. Screen partition, 7 ft. high. PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE NEW ALMSHOUSE ON DEER ISLAND. The proportions of the building are arithmetical; — the centrebuilding is a cube of 75 feet, with the corners subtended ; the super-intendents house is a cube of 50 feet; the north wing is two cubes PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 321 of 50 feet each ; the south wing is two cubes of 50 feet each ; andthe east wing four cubes of 50 feet each. The paupers, as they arrive, are received at a central point, underthe eye of the superintendent, in his office, as they approach;thoroughly cleaned, if nece
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