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It has been the purpose to make the main part of the building 

 about the size of the average rural school-house, and then to add the 

 work-room as a wing or projection. Such a room could be added to 

 existing school buildings; or, in districts in which the building is now 

 too large, one part of the room could be partitioned off as a work- 

 room. 



It is the purpose, also, to make this building artistic, attractive and 

 home-like to children, sanitary, comfortable, and durable. The 

 cement-plaster exterior is handsomer and warmer than wood, and on 

 expanded metal lath it is durable. The interior of this building is 

 very attractive. 



The picture shows the building just as completed, before the grad- 

 ing of the grounds. School-gardens and play-grounds are being made 

 at one side. 



The cost has been as follows: Contract price for buildings complete, 

 including heater in cellar, blackboards, and two outhouses with metal 

 drawers, $1800; tinting of walls $25 00; curtains $16 56; furniture 

 and supplies $141 75; total 51,983 31. In rural districts, the con- 

 struction might be completed at less cost. The average valuation of 

 rural school buildings and sites in New York State in 1905 was 

 #1,833.63. 



The building is designed for twenty-five pupils in the main room. 

 The folding doors and windows in the partition enable one teacher to 

 manage both rooms. The openings between school-room and work- 

 room are fitted with glazed swing sash and folding doors, so that the 

 rooms may be used either singly or together, as desired. The work- 

 room has a bay window facing south and fitted with shelves for 

 plants. Slate black-boards of standard school heights fill the spaces 

 about the rooms between doors and windows. The building is heated 

 by hot air; vent flues of adequate sizes are also provided so that the 

 rooms are thoroughly heated and ventilated. 



On the front of • the building and adding materially to its pict- 

 uresque appearance, is a roomy veranda with simple square posts, 

 from which entrance is made directly into the combined vestibule and 

 coat-room and from this again by two doors into the school-room. 



Inquiries about the construction details of this school building may 

 be addressed to L. H. Bailey, Director College of Agriculture. Ithaca,. 

 N. Y. 



