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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ntilation. The principal entrance to themain upper room is from the north side, through two anterooms, oneeach for boys and girls, and fitted for hats and bonnets. Near these aretwo others for the Principal and assistant, about 10 by 17 feet each. On thesouth side is a recitation room 25 by 17 feet, and a library 15 by 17 feet.Near the northeast corner is a flight of stairs leading to the girls jard.The ceiling of the main room is I62 feet high, and is divided into 15panels, foraied by finishing the beams of the roof with mouldings andpanel work. Where the beams intersect the surface, the work is enrichedwith carved rosettes. The whole ceiling is executed in wood and paintedin two tints. The walls are crowned with a neat cornice in plaster, whichfinishes into the inouldings of the ceiling. The wainscotting is of red-wood in its natural-color, varnished. The doors are painted in neutralcolor of two tints. The entrance from the first story is by a flight ofstairs 4 feet 6 inches wide. i
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229 The general character of the architecture of the building is of theItalian stj^lo. The stylobate or base of the building rises to an elevationof five feet above the grade of the street. The surface of the rear andend walls is broken by the introduction of pilasters, which serve forexterior ornamentations, strength for the walls, and flues for the interior.Water tables break the perpendicular surface of the walls between thestories. The entablature is of the Italian villa style, with a cornice pro-jecting three feet, and the pediments of the ends finished wMt i belts.To give a pleasing variety to the otherwise monotonous appearance ofits repeated windows atul pilasters, the architect has introduced a brokenfacade, projecting 37 feet of the central portion, two feet from the lineof the wall—the angles being finished with rustic quoins, and the entab-lature with a pediment. The principal entrance is a triplet opening inthe Romanesque style, with a stilted arch supported with two ir

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