PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS NORMAL

SCHOOL-HOUSES.

THE following plans and descriptions are copied from the "Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education," with the permission of the Hon. Horace Mann, by whose indefatigable labors these institutions were founded, seconded as his efforts were by the munificent donation of the sum of ten thousand dollars, from the Hon. Edmund Dwight, of Boston.

These buildings were erected partly out of the contribution of $5000, subscribed originally by the friends of Mr. Mann, as a testimony of their esteem for his public services, and, at his suggestion, invested in this way-thus converting these edifices into the monuments of their generosity, and of his selfsacrifice.

This edifice is constructed of wood, and is sixty-four feet by forty-two, and two stories in height. The upper story is divided into a principal school room, forty-one feet by forty, and two recitation-moms, erch t-vent feet by twelve, and is designed for the Normal School. The lower story is ntted up for a Model School,

D, D-Doors, one for males, the other for females. E, E-Fall-entries, into which the doors D, D open, 19 feet by 15. A, A-Stairways, leading from the entries to the Normal School-room. M, S, R-Model School-room, 40 feet by 24, with single seats and desks. H-Entry-way, 6 feet 8 inches wide, for Model School scholars. At each end of this entry is an outside door, for the entrance of the Model School scholars-a separate entrance for each sex. G, F-Laboratory and chemical room, or lecture-room, connected by folding doors. The two rooms 40 feet by 16. B, C-Back stairways.

BRIDGEWATER STATE NORMAL SCHOOL-HOUSE

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A, A-Separate stairways, for the different sexes, leading from the lower entries, or halls, to the Normal School-room. N, S, R-Normal School-room 41 feet by 40. c, c, c-Single seats. d, d-Double desks. P, P, P-Teachers platform. e, e, e, e, e-Behind the platform are recesses in the partition for a library. e, e-Between R, R, are closets for apparatus. R, R-Recitationrooms, 22 feet by 12. B, C-Back stairways.

This edifice is of brick, of the size of sixty-two feet by forty feet, with a portico of eight feet at each end of the building, and is two stories in height. The Normal School-room is about forty feet square, and is provided with two recitation-rooms. The first story is fitted up with a room large enough to accommodate a Model School, which is composed of the children of one of the districts in the town of Westfield, the district having paid the sum of $1500 towards the erection of the building, and being obligated to pay an agreed proportion of the expenses of fuel, instraction, &c.