PLAN OF DISTRICT SCHOOL-HOUSE IN HARTFORD, CONN. The above cut represents the front elevation of a new school-house erected in Arsenal District, in Hartford, after designs by Octavius Jordan, Architect. As originally planned there were to be two rooms, as shown in side elevation, (Fig. 3.) The largest (Fig. 2) room is forty-five feet long by twenty-five wide, with a recitation-room (C) fourteen feet by twelve, and two entries, one for boys (A) and one for girls, (B), each twelve feet by six, furnished with sink, nooks, &c. There are thirty-two desks, each for two pupils, with sixty-four chairs, (page 141, Fig. 2), and thirty-two chairs for young children, (Fig. 3, page 30.) The room is warmed by Mott's School Stove, (page 146,) and ventilated by flues in the walls, opening at the top and bottom of the room, which is fifteen feet high in the clear. The material is brick, and the cost $1800. Fig. 3. SIDE ELEVATION. Side elevation of the new School-house in Arsenal District, Hartford, as originally designed for two departments The flues for smoke and for ventilation are carried up in the belfry, which is of brick PLANS OF THE SOUTH DISTRICT SCHOOL-HOUSE IN THE CITY OF HARTFORD. The house, illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, was erected in 1851, after plans by E. D. Tiffany, Esq., at an expense, including lot, inclosure, building, and furniture, of $13,000. The location is both central and retired, on the east side of Wadsworth street, having a front of 320 feet, and depth of 150, and is rendered surpassingly attractive and beautiful by a number of fine old majestic oaks and graceful elms. The building is of brick, 70 feet by 58, exclusive of the towers, and s three stories high, and was designed to accommodate 450 pupils-but owing to the attraction of the house and popularity of the school, provision has been made in it for 500 pupils-classified into five departments. V-Flues for ventilation surmounted by Emerson's Ejector. |