the three stories with the master's room. New privies and drains were built. The entire structure was thoroughly renovated, and finished in every respect as a first-class school-house. The lot has been enlarged to nearly double the size of the original lot, and enclosed by a substantial brick wall, and newly graded. The house is now one of the most commodious in the city. Plans for the remodelling and enlargement were made for the city by Joseph R. Richards and William S. Park, the well-known architects. Cost of alterations, $39,917.10. Contractor, E. B., Witherspoon.

LYMAN SCHOOL-HOUSE. This house was commenced in August, 1869, and completed in July, 1870. It is situated on the corner of Paris and Decatur streets, East Boston, and was designed by those well known architects, Bryant and Rogers. The building has four elegant and ornate façades, with central projections in each, and is in the form of a latin cross, having an extreme width of 104 feet, and an extreme length of 114 feet. It is three stories in height above the basement, the third story being within the Mansard roof, which crowns the whole area of the edifice. The basement contains the boiler, janitor's, fuel and play-rooms, and the water-closets. The first and second stories each contain six school-rooms, 29 by 32 feet square, and 13 feet high in the clear; six clothes rooms, and four teachers' rooms, opening into a hall 24 feet wide, which extends the whole length of the building, and contains sinks and basins for the accommodation of both teachers and scholars. The third, or roof story, contains an exhibition hall, 54 by 75 feet, with two ante-rooms attached; two schoolrooms, 28 by 30 feet; teachers' rooms, clothes closets, committee room, etc. Each school room is provided with 56 scholars' desks and chairs, and teachers' desks, from the establishment of Joseph L. Ross. The furniture is of oak throughout, and the building is considered one of the best furnished in the city.

The building accommodates 784 pupils. The heating apparatus is from the establishment of G. W. Walker & Co., and is successful in all respects. The contractors were Wm. Sayward for the masonry, and B. H. Flanders for the carpentry. The total cost of the building was $115,885.49, including heating apparatus, furniture, fencing, grading, etc.

YEOMAN STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE. This building is a parallelogram, 763 feet long and 613 feet wide, with a projection front and rear, 283 feet long and 7 feet wide. The building is brick, with granite base course and trimmings, and contains three finished stories beside the basement. The first and second stories are 13 feet, and the third, or French-roof story, 12 feet high in the clear.

The basement is divided into fuel, boiler, janitor's, and play rooms, and water-closets. The first, second and third stories each contain four school-rooms, 28 feet square, with clothes room and teachers' retiring room attached. A hall 20 feet wide extends the entire length of the building, with two wide stairways at each end. Each room contains 56 scholars' desks and chairs, and the capacity of the house is 672 scholars.

The yard contains two blocks of cesspool privies, and is surrounded on three sides by a brick wall, and in front by a substantial iron fence, supported on a granite base.

The whole area of the yard and cellars is graded and paved, making clean and attractive play grounds for the pupils. The building is warmed by the Indirect Radiating Steam Heaters, manufactured by G. W. Walker & Co. The furniture is from the manufactory of Joseph L. Ross. The contractors were, for masonry, Augustus Lothrop; for carpentry, Morton & Chesley; architects, Bryant & Rogers. The building, including heating, furniture, and an additional lot of land, cost $64,005.62, and is considered the most improved twelve-room primary school-house in the city.

STARR KING PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE. This building, situated on Tennyson street, is like the Yeoman street house in every respect, excepting that the third story contains only two school-rooms, the remainder of the story being fitted up as a hall for singing exercises. The house thus contains only ten school-rooms, with accommodations for 560 pupils. The building was commenced in the fall of 1869, and completed July, 1870.

The architects were Bryant and Rogers; builders, Weston & Shepard, masons; and W. & J. Rawson, carpenters. Furniture from the manufactory of Joseph L. Ross. Heating apparatus from the works of G. W. Walker & Co.

The total cost of the house was $57,651.66.

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CAPEN PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE. This primary schoolhouse is located on the corner of Sixth and I streets. six-room school-house, three stories high, the third story being in the roof and lighted by dormer windows. The plan of each floor gives two school-rooms twenty-eight feet square, one for boys, the other for girls, and two clothes rooms, 7 feet by 28 feet, and two separate staircases. This house, it may be remarked, is the first of the primary school-houses in which two separate staircases have been provided. In the basement are two large play-rooms for boys and girls to be used in stormy weather; also the steam-heating apparatus. The plan of the architects provided for two ventilating ducts from each room, opening in the ordinary manner into the central ventilator on the roof. The committee, however, considered this provision needlessly ample, and the house was built with only one duct. from each room, as usual. The exterior of the house is built of brick, with window caps and sills of granite, and is perhaps the plainest which the city has built for many years.

The architects were Cummings & Sears. Contractors for the masonry, Weston & Shepard; for the carpentry, W. & J.

Rawson; for the furniture, Joseph L. Ross. Cost of land, $6,145.31; building, $34,716.35; furniture, $2,075.40. Total, $42,937.06.

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WINTHROP STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE. This schoolhouse, situated on Winthrop street, Boston Highlands, was, before its alterations, a two-story building, having one schoolroom in each story. It has been remodelled, after plans made by Joseph R. Richards and William S. Park, architects, and consists now of a two-room-to-a-floor school-house. The original structure was a brick building, 26 feet in width and 38 feet in depth. The enlargement consists of a wing, or addition, measuring 43 feet on the easterly side, 27 feet on the westerly side, and 30 feet on the rear, built in connection with the present structure, two stories in height, of the same height and level of floors with the original structure, having a cellar under and a roof over the whole, to conform to the requirements of the new order of this class of buildings. In the wing were built new stairways, clothes-rooms, and common entries to each school-room, of both new and old building. A new arrangement of ventilators and ventilation was made, a new block of privies built, a new system of drains and drainage completed, the lot properly enclosed, and finished by a new front iron fence and gates. Cost of alterations, $11,785.29. Contractor, Edwin Adams.

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PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE, FAYETTE STREET. This building is situated on the corner of Fayette and Church streets. It is rectangular in form, measuring 74 feet 11 inches on Church street, and 42 feet on Fayette street, with a pavilion 14 feet square on each front corner. It is three stories high above the basement, beside the attic; the first and second stories are 13 feet, and the third story 12 feet high, in the clear; the pavilions are carried up one story above the main building.

The general arrangement of each floor consists of two schoolrooms, each 28 feet square; two dressing rooms, each 8 feet 6 inches by 10 feet; and two halls about 10×26 feet each. The basement contains play-room, furnace and coal rooms and water closet for teachers.

The building is of face brick, resting on a base course of granite, and with freestone trimmings. Each school-room contains 56 desks and chairs, making the capacity of the house 336 scholars. The yard, which is paved with brick, contains a block of privies and is surrounded by an iron fence.

The masonry was by F. & G. W. Jones; carpentry by S. & H. Ames. The furniture is from the manufactory of Joseph L. Ross. The building is heated by two furnaces made by Levi Chubbuck. Architect, Nathaniel J. Bradlce. Cost of building and furniture, $27,680.02.

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PAVING BUILDINGS, WEST CITY WHARF. wooden buildings on the corner of Charles and Cambridge streets, was erected in the winter of 1870-71, for the uses of the Paving Department. It consists of a story-and-a-half erection on Cambridge street, 68 feet in length by 25 feet in width, fitted up for blacksmiths' and carpenter shops, the upper story affording excellent facilities for storage of tools, etc. The corner building, at the junction of the streets, is two stories in height, the lower occupied as an office, with entrance from Cambridge street, and from the court between this and the stable. A commodious flight of stairs leads to the story above, which is fitted up as a tenement, with the usual conveniences. Between this building and the next in range on Charles street, is a court twelve feet in width, giving access to the wharf room in the rear, whereon is stored the paving material for that section of the city. The court is closed from the street by a substantial sliding gate, and in it is placed the standard scale platform, the lever being in the adjoining office. The stable, with the crack