. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Fbont Elevation. arate wardrobes for the two sexes; the convenient position ofthe teachers desk with its large wall-space for the blackboard,are sufficiently apparent upon the plan. A recitation-roomand a room for apparatus may be added on the rear, if desired,without changing the rest of the plan. The walls are of brick, eight inches thick, strengthened bypilasters (4X20 inches), which serve both for use and orna- Church and School-House, 157 ment, as may be seen by examining the plan and eleva
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Fbont Elevation. arate wardrobes for the two sexes; the convenient position ofthe teachers desk with its large wall-space for the blackboard,are sufficiently apparent upon the plan. A recitation-roomand a room for apparatus may be added on the rear, if desired,without changing the rest of the plan. The walls are of brick, eight inches thick, strengthened bypilasters (4X20 inches), which serve both for use and orna- Church and School-House, 157 ment, as may be seen by examining the plan and inside of the walls is furred oif as usual. The front part,under the hall and clothes-closets, is intended to be dug out fora coal and furnace cellar. A portable furnace, costing from$75 to $100, will heat the whole house, and is to be preferredto stoves. In addition to the opposite windows, which facili-tate ventilation during the warm season, ventilating shafts,. Side in a box on the roof, are indicated in the rearwall. The inside walls are to have two coats of plaster, amibe wainscoted up to the windows all around. The roof maybe covered with slate or shingles, as most convenient. Thobell cupola, very appropriately a prominent ornamental anduseful feature in school architecture, may be constructed ofwood, as shown. Access to it may be had from the second-floor hall, by means of a step-ladder. The school-room fur-niture consists of double desks, about three and a half feetlong, with stooK 158 The House. All school-houses should, if possihle, be constructed of solidmaterials—brick or stone—in so substantial a manner as tooutlast all the other buildings in the town or village, and servefor the accommodation of many generations of children, whose Fig. 122.
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