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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



July 



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A DISTHTCT SCHOOL HOUSE. 



Evidences of a growing taste for the pleas- 

 ant and beautiful are to be seen in the archi- 

 tecture and surroundings of modern-built res- 

 idences throughout New England. And al- 

 though the bald, cheerless, and "out-of-door" 

 aspect of many a school-house provokes the 

 remark that "it is the worst looking building 

 in the whole neighborhood," there is now and 

 then one which shows that a spirit of improve- 

 ment is at work which shall make these pri- 

 mary "agricultural colleges" attractive rath- 

 er than repulsive to the Young America for 

 whom they are provided. Indeed so great 

 has been the change in the school house and 

 in the system of instruction of our rural dis- 

 tricts, that parents have found of late much 

 less necessity for "driving" their children to 

 school than formerly. For the purpose of 

 aiding those neigliborhaods who deslri' that 

 the first impressions of the scliool should be 

 pleasant to their children, we publish the ac- 

 companying plan and perspective view of a 

 school house, designed by Geo. E. Harney, 

 for our columns. The engravings need lit- 



tle description. The perspective view shows 

 the style of tlie exterior. The plan shows the 

 position and relative size of the rooms. 



A is an open porch, shielding the entrance to 

 the girls' apartment, B ; C is the school room ; 

 D is a recitation room ; E, the boys' entry ; 

 F, woodroom ; PI, wash and pump room ; K, 

 the teacher's desk. 



