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Design for a Schoolhouse; verso: Schoolroom Floor Plan and Layout of Desks with Notations
Image Not Available for Design for a Schoolhouse; verso: Schoolroom Floor Plan and Layout of Desks with Notations
Artist/Maker (American, 1807 – 1868)

Design for a Schoolhouse; verso: Schoolroom Floor Plan and Layout of Desks with Notations

Brown ink and wash with touches of graphite on paper
Overall: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
mat: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
1939.605
This is a plan for a schoolhouse, measuring 24 x 34 feet, with an exterior view on one side of the font and side. On the reverse is a floor plan and sketch of desks, with detailed notes and description of the interior seating arrangement and proposed division of the outside schoolyard.
DescriptionArchitecture
InscribedInscribed with many design measurements and notations, elevation and distance scales, and comments in brown ink; at middle in graphite: "W. S. Mount -- / from family Stoneybrook -- / L. I."
ClassificationsDRAWINGS