. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. ly dining-room and store-rooms. The general superintendents private apartments, privateoffices and five dormitories for officers occupy the aecond floor;while the third floor is given up to the assistant superintendentsapartment, library, chapel and hospital. The family houses are similar in style, forming rectangular build-ings 36 by 68 feet. The basement of each contains a furnaceroom, a store-room and a large wash-room, which is converted intoa play-room during inclement weather. On the first floor of eachof these buildings are two rooms for t
. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. ly dining-room and store-rooms. The general superintendents private apartments, privateoffices and five dormitories for officers occupy the aecond floor;while the third floor is given up to the assistant superintendentsapartment, library, chapel and hospital. The family houses are similar in style, forming rectangular build-ings 36 by 68 feet. The basement of each contains a furnaceroom, a store-room and a large wash-room, which is converted intoa play-room during inclement weather. On the first floor of eachof these buildings are two rooms for the house father and hisfamily, and a school-room, which is also convertible into a sitting-room for the boys. On the third floor is a family dormitory, aclothes-room and a room for the elder brother, who ranks nextto the house father. And since the reception of the first boy, fromHendricks county, January 23, 1868, the house plan has provedequally convenient, even as the management has proved efficient. Other buildings have since been
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