PLANS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL-HOUSE NUMBER TWENTY

Public Grammar School No. 20 is located in Chrystie near Delancey street, in the Tenth Ward. The lot on which the building is situated is 100 feet square.

The main building is 50 by 97 feet, with four wings 25 by 28, and 25 by 33, which give it a frontage of 100 feet. The style of architecture of the front is Corinthian.

There is a cellar under four wings and front of the main building. The cellar is eight feet in the clear.

The basement story is ten feet in the clear, and the ceilings of the three remaining stories are fourteen feet in the clear.

The building is heated with Barrows' furnaces.

The rear stairs and platforms are constructed of stone and inclosed with brick walls, thereby rendering the stairs fire-proof.

The whole cost of the building, including the furniture and fitting up, is about $44,000.

Fig. 1.-PLAY-Grounds, JanitoR'S APARTMENTS, &c.

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STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS,

AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS FOR THE

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

PRELIMINARY REPORT.

THE following pages exhibit the condition of State Normal Schools and City Training Schools in operation in 1867-8, so far as returns have been received, in response to the Special Circular (No. 10,) of the Commissioner of Education, soliciting information on the whole subject of the Professional Training of Teachers in the several States. A more complete documentary history of the system in each State will be hereafter presented.