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are built in conformity with the old pavilions, of face-bricks, with granite trimmings, two stories high, exclusive of the basement and French roof story. The Surgical Building contains reception-rooms for patients, an operating theatre extending through two stories, with seating capacity for 150 students, and all necessary rooms and offices connected therewith, besides a number of private rooms for one or two patients each, bath-rooms, water-closets, a passenger elevator, a dining-room, and small basement kitchen, and rooms for nurses. The Medical Building contains physicians' offices and bedrooms, three small wards for ten or twelve patients cach, a number of private rooms for one or two patients each, bath-rooms, water-closets, a passenger elevator, etc., like Medical Building. The two new pavilions are lofty one-story iron buildings, with a two-story part for administration purposes at the entrance end of the buildings; and bath-rooms, water-closets, and a sunny convalescents' room at the other end; the ward in the centre part is 100 feet long, 28 feet wide, and 18 feet high, with ceiling elliptical in form, and ridge ventilation in the centre. Each ward admits of 28 beds. The new Kitchen Department is a one-story brick building, with flat roof, containing a spacious kitchen, a bakery, two large brick ovens, a vegetable cellar, an ice-house, located between the meat room and the milk and butter room. All the new buildings are connected with the old portions of the hospital by means of covered corridors. In addition to the above, the heating apparatus of the old buildings has been completely changed and replaced, including entire rearrangement of boiler-room, by lowering of boilers, provision of large space for receiving and storing of coal, etc. Architect, Carl Fehmer; contractors, Stuart, Snow & Foss, and Thomas Goggin & Co., masons; Henry J. Bartlett, carpenter; Walworth Manufacturing Co., steamheating apparatus. The buildings are not all quite completed, but some are occupied. Total cost to May 1, 1876, $159,109.56.

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NEW WINTHROP GRAMMAR SCHOOL-HOUSE. ing is located at the corner of Prospect and Edgeworth streets, Charlestown District. The lot contains about 22,000 feet. The building accommodates 16 grammar rooms, an exhibition hall, and master's room, and covers an area of 9.000 feet. Each school-room has its wardrobe and teacher's closet. Particular care has been given to the lighting, heating and ventilating. It is heated by steam, and ventilated by means of shafts extending from basement to highest point of the roof. The structure is built in the modern

Gothic style, of brick trimmed with sandstone, and is three finished stories high, above the basement, which is partly finished as play-rooms; this story enters on a level with the yard or play-grounds, on the south side; and on the north side, with an entrance on Edgeworth street; the principal entrance being at a level with the first floor on Prospect street. The interior finish of the building is of pine throughout, grained in imitation of oak, and varnished, with hardpine for floors and staircases. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors for the construction of the work, Donahoe Bros., masons; John Rawson, carpenter; Walworth Manufacturing Company, steam-heating apparatus. Cost of land, $44,158; cost of building, $73,247.02; heating apparatus and furniture, $11,048.94. Total, $128,453.96.

SCHOOL-HOUSE, NEWBURY STREET. This building is located upon a lot at the corner of Newbury and Exeter streets, Back Bay territory, and, unlike any other in the city, is an adaptation of a plan used in Germany, embracing many important improvements in school architecture, as to manner of lighting, proportion of rooms, and their arrangements in connection with corridors, wardrobe closets, etc. The building is irregular in its outline of plan, consisting of a central building, with wings extending right and left; one wing only being completed with the main structure, leaving the opposite wing to be added hereafter, as the wants of the district may require. The dimensions of the building outside are 136 feet long, and varying in width at different points from 36 feet to 60 feet. The present accommodations are for 2 grammar classes and 6 primary classes, with an exhibition hall in the second story in the central building. The building is two finished stories in height, in addition to an elevated basement story, also partially finished, and divided into separate apartments as play-grounds for the boys and girls; the yard-room outside being divided in a similar manner. The façades exposed to view are of face-brick trimmed with brown stone. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, S. J. and G. Tuttle, masons; Benjamin H. Flanders, carpenter; Walker, Pratt & Co., steam-heating apparatus. The system of ventilation introduced is by direct flues, two to each room, of a capacity of 24 inches by 36 inches at the mouth; in them, at the floor level, steam coils are placed, to rarefy the air; each of these shafts is carried high above the roof. Cost of land, $59,080; of building, including the fitting, furnishing, and heating-apparatus, $54,185.83. Total, $113,265.83.

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PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE, QUINCY STREET.- This building is located on Quincy street, near the corner of Blue Hill avenue. The lot contains about 30,000 feet, and the building covers about 6,000 feet; it is two stories in height, with a basement story well elevated. The building is constructed of brick, trimmed with sandstone; the roof is slated, and the ridges surmounted by a cresting. There are three entrances to the building, two from the yard levels to the basement, which connect with the staircases, and one principal entrance from Quincy street. There are accommodations in the building for eight primary classes, or 450 children. The building is finished throughout in pine, grained in imitation of oak, and varnished; it is heated by steam, and ventilated by means of turrets elevated high above the roof, in which are placed steam-pipes to rarefy the air. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, Hussey & Lowe, masons; Asa Lewis, carpenter; Walker, Pratt & Co., steam-heating apparatus. Cost of land, $9,383.50; cost of building, including fitting, furnishing and heating apparatus, payments to May 1, 1876, $45,438.71; balance due on carpenter's contract, $500.81, and small extra charges.

PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE, ROXBURY STREET. This building is located upon a lot at the corner of King and Roxbury streets, Highland District. This lot contains 14,147

feet, and was very irregular in form and uneven in the grade. The building is constructed after the same plan and with the same accommodations as the Quincy-street house, differing only in exterior effect, the elevation being of face-brick trimmed with sandstone in Gothic character. Plans by

George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, Devine & Fagan, masons; McDonald Bros., carpenters. Cost of land, $28,500.00. Payments on account building, heating and furniture, to May 1, 1876, $41,386.76; balance due on carpenter's contract, $2,908.49, and small extra charges.

PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE, GIBSON DISTRICT. This building is located on the corner of Thetford avenue and Evans street, Dorchester District, upon a lot containing 29,863 feet, the building covering about 3,300 feet. It contains four school-rooms, the plan being arranged for an addition of two more rooms, as the growth of the district may hereafter demand. The building is constructed of wood, with a stone basement exposed above the grade about six feet; the roof is slated, and a ventilating tower rises from the intersection of the central portion and the wings of the building. The

architecture of the exterior is slightly upon the Swiss order, the trimmings of dark color and the background light. The interior of the building is finished in pine, grained and varnished. The school-house is heated by steam upon the patent soap-stone heating apparatus, furnished and put up by Smith, Cutler & Co. The construction of the building was under one contractor, Benj. H. Flanders, carpenter. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Cost of land, $6,000; building, heating apparatus and furniture, $18,470.13. Total, $24,470.13.

PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE, LAWRENCE DISTRICT. This building is located on Fifth street, between B and C streets, South Boston, upon a lot containing 12,489 feet, the building covering about 6,000 feet. The plan provides for the same accommodation as the Quincy-street house, and the general construction is essentially the same, excepting in the manner of entrance, which is by two spacious entrances at the sides, connecting with a corridor which divides the school-rooms, and with staircases at each side, opposite the doors. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, Lynch Bros., masons; James F. Marston, carpenter; Wm. E. Bartlett, heating apparatus. Cost of land, $21,855.75; of building, including furniture and heating apparatus, $44,503.96. Total, $66,359.71.

ADDITION TO PRIMARY SCHOOL-HOUSE ON FRANCIS STREET. On June 10, 1875, a contract was awarded by the Committee to Joseph E. R. Pierce, for building an addition, containing four rooms, making a building of six rooms, according to plans of George A. Clough, City Architect. The addition was made at the front on Francis street, and has a frontage of 72 feet by 26 feet deep; it is two stories high above the basement, built of brick, trimmed with granite, having an entrance in the centre of the front from Francis street, and two side entrances from the playgrounds. The old building was thoroughly overhauled and refitted, and a new steam apparatus put in by Smith, Cutler, & Co.; the old play-grounds were regraded and paved, and new brick and iron fences put up, enclosing the building lot. The building was completed, and accepted by the committee, Dec. 21, 1875. Payments for addition, steam-heating and furnishing, to May 1, 1876, $16,090.28; to be made, $695. Total cost, $16,785.28.

ENGINE-HOUSE, DARTMOUTH STREET. This building is situated on Dartmouth street, next to the crossing of the Providence Railroad, and has a frontage of 61 feet. The

triangular shape of the lot narrows up the width of the building across the rear to 35 feet, and rendered it necessary to locate the stable at the front, on the right of the apparatus-room. The structure is two stories in height above the street, and three stories above the lot at the sides and rear; built of brick and trimmed with sandstone. The hose tower, also of brick, is placed in the centre of the façade on Dartmouth street. The basement story is used for the storage of coal. The apparatus-room, on the first story, is 56 feet by 30 feet, entered by double drive-way doors from Dartmouth street; the stable at the right has seven stalls ; in the rear of the stable is a work-room, dressing-room, and a spacious closet, all opening from the apparatus-room. The second story contains a dormitory, 40 fect by 21 feet, a smoking-room, a captain's room, and a bath-room; and over the stable portion a hay-loft. The stable is finished in hard pine; all other parts of the building are finished in pine, grained and varnished. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, Stuart, Snow, & Foss, masons; Henry J. Bartlett, carpenter; Smith, Cutler & Co., heating apparatus. Cost of land, $11,157.50; of building and heating apparatus, $23,411.12. Total, $34,568.62.

ENGINE-HOUSE, BRISTOL STREET. This building is situated on the corner of Harrison avenue and Bristol street, having a frontage on Harrison avenue of 40 feet, and depth of 100 feet. It is divided in the centre by a partition, and provides accommodation for a hook and ladder company, the entrance for the apparatus of both companies being from Harrison avenue. The stable is located in the rear, partially separated from the main building; the stalls are arranged upon the plan of heading the horses to the apparatus. The main structure is three stories high, and the stables two stories, built of brick, the exterior slightly relieved with black brick and stone trimmings. The second story contains dormitories, captain's room and a bath-room, for each company. The third story contains a smokingroom and workshop for each company. The second story over the stable provides for storage of hay and grain. The building is finished in pine, grained and varnished. The method of heating is by steam, upon the improved system introduced by Smith, Cutler & Co. Plans by George A. Clough, City Architect. Contractors, Bray & Tarbox, masons; James F. Marston, carpenter. Cost of land, $20,000; of building and heating apparatus, $27,865.23. Total, $47,865.23.

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