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Title: Public education in the city of New York: its history, condition. And statistics
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Education Boese, Thomas. (from old catalog) Harrison, Thomas F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Public schools Education
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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plav-ground, which is more fully explained in Fig.2. The main building is 2!> feet front, by G2.V feet (leej); the stair building is27 feet by 11 feet 8 inches. The main building is jilaced G or 8 feet from theline of the sti-eet, according to the depth of the lot. The walls above theground are built entirely of brick. The roof is of tin, and the gutters of cop-per. The lower doors and windows have iron bars inserted for safety and toadmit a free circulation of air in summer, but are closed with sashes in the win-ter. The sashes in all the Primary Schools are hung the same as those in thePublic Schools, so as to be moved up and down at pleasure. The first story,or play-ground, is 71 feet high in the clear ; the second and third stories, each12 feet high in the clear. Figures 1 and 2 exiiibit the plans and elevation of a Model Primary SchoolHouse (for two departments) adopted by the Public School Society. That So-ciety, after 1844, erected all their Primary Schools after this plan.
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FIO. -GROUND PLAN OF FIRST STORY, OR PLAT-GROUND, YARDS, PRIVIES,STAIR BUILDING, ETC. N—Side-walk, bine-stone flagging. J—Court-yards, blue-stone flag-ging ; separated fr(nn tbe side-walk byiron railing. CC—Stairways; tbe side on wbichFig. 2 is marked leading to the BoysDepartment, or third story. F L—Places for pine (kindling)wood, nnder the stairs. E—Sand-box for Vjoth departments. h h—Piles of wood, about 4i fr. liigh. I I—Linos on which the scholarsare marshalled previous to enteringschool. ^^^-- SCHOOL-HOUSES. 155 natural outgrowth of the original idea brought about by theexperience gained in the workings of the system. The schoc^ buildings erected by the late Public SchoolSociety were all built upon the same general plan, and thatplan—owing no doubt to the limited funds of the Society—was a very economical one. Their Model Primary School-house was built upon a single lot, covering the whole width—twenty-five feet—to a depth of sixty-two feet, and at thatpoi

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