PLANS OF CODDINGTON SCHOOL, NEWPORT, R. I.

THE extreme dimensions of the building erected in 1869, for the Coddington School, so called in honor of William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island, are 85 feet front by 73 deep, with a central projection in front and rear of ten feet six inches. The foundation, water-tables, window and door caps and sills, are of brown stone, and the walls of Danvers pressed brick. On each of the three floors are four school-rooms (S. R.), each 28 by 32 feet, and 13 feet in the clear, with two clothes rooms 14 feet by 5. Each room is furnished with 56 single desks and chairs from the manufactory of W. O. Haskell & Son, Boston. The inside doors swing both ways, closing without noise. All the doors for leaving the building open outward. Two large triangular shafts (V), communicating with each room at top and bottom by registers, extend from the basement to the galvanized iron chimney tops. The iron smoke-pipes from four furnaces in the basement, and the hot-air pipes, pass through these shafts, and maintain constantly, when the season demands closed windows, a strong upward current. Each furnace heats a tier of rooms.

PLANS OF THE THAYER STREET SCHOOL-HOUSE, PROVIDENCE, R. I. THE THAYER STREET SCHOOL HOUSE, dedicated to the uses of the Public Schools of Providence by appropriate exercises, Jan. 2, 1868, is situated on the corner of Charles Field and Thayer streets, the north-west corner lot, which contains about 20,000 square feet. It is designed to accommodate the second and third districts, comprising the second and third wards. This will effect the consolidation of the Prospect street and the Arnold street Grammar schools, superseding the teachers and machinery of one Grammar School, and lessening by about $3,000 the annual expenses of the school department. The plan rendered necessary further accommodations for intermediate and primary scholars, which have been provided for by a new school-house for these classes, on the corner of Thayer and Meeting streets, with seats for 200 scholars.

The building is a very fine one, and presents a grand appearance from all points of observation. It measures seventy-six feet by eighty-nine on the ground. It is heated by four of Lawson's furnaces in the cellar. Its architecture is chaste, and the different materials of walls and trimmings of the exterior have been disposed in the most happy manner for effect.

The underpinning is red Gloucester granite, overlaid by a water table of Connecticut free-stone. The walls are of Danvers pressed brick, laid in dark mortar, carried up double, twelve inches thick, with an air-chamber between, to intercept moisture, and shut off the influence of the exterior temperature, whether it be extreme heat or intense cold. The window sills and belt courses are of Nova Scotia sandstone. The window caps present a variegated appearance, being of stone, blocks of Gloucester granite and Connecticut freestone alternating. The cornice is arcaded, being constructed of brick and Nova Scotia sandstone, with gutters of iron. The roof is steep, covered with slate in alternate courses of black and green. This has a fine effect, and elegantly sets out the entire building. There are four dormer windows on each side. Towers rise at each corner, on one of which is the bell.

The basement extends under the entire building. It contains four furnaces, and the bottom is cemented to permit the use of the room by the girls for purposes of play in wet weather.

The entrances are from the north and south ends, the principal one being from Charles Field street. The steps are broad, and leading to a porch which opens into the hall extending through the building.

The upper stories are reached by four broad stairways; special attention has been paid to their construction, that they may be entirely safe in all respects; and they are separated from the main rooms by a brick wall, as a protection against fire. There are no open banisters in which the children may be caught at risk of limb, neither a pit through which they may be precipitated in case of a panic, causing a sudden rush. These stairways leading to the school-rooms, open into halls, as on the first floor, running through the building.

The school-rooms on the three floors all correspond in size and finish, and are arranged, two on each side of the halls. The scholars in those on the east side face to the South, which lets the light fall upon the desks from the left. In the west rooms the scholars will face to the North; thus, in these rooms, obtaining light from the left. Inside blinds of cherry are provided, by which the light