much progress, or perhaps lack of progress, had been made in school-house architecture since our first building in 1732, a part of the contract for this building given to Benjamin Pratt, mason, and Thomas Pratt, carpenter, is here quoted: The said House is to be built of well burnt bricks—in length 28 ft, in breadth 23 ft, in height 10 ft from the stone foundation which is to be one foot at least in the ground below the surface and one foot above the the surface, which last must be of faced Stone.
The roof is to be of pine Timber, boarded and shingled and pitched the whole length of the House in the proportion of about 1/3 to the width of the building.
The walls all round are to be in thickness the length of one Brick of Eight inches in length and of four inches in Breadth.
In the front and in the Rear three windows, and one at each end of the House, twenty-four panes in each window, and glazed with good Glass of the size denominated seven by nine.
The east window to be place
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