Volume 2

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PUPILS' DINING ROOM AND CHAPEL. This structure is situated immediately in rear of and adjoining the main building. The entire lower Hour, seventy by eighty-five feet, is as- signed as a pupils' dining room. Access to this room is had by doors on the east and west sides as well as by hall ways leading direct from boys' and girls'play rooms. It contains thirLy-six tables, each table seating eight pupils. The same system of steam heat, gas and electric light prevails here as elsewhere. The chapel, m second floor, is seventy feet long and fifty feet wide and twenty five feet high. It is furnished with three hundred chairs for the accommodation of tluj pupils. An elevated platform or stage covers the center of the south wall; A large gallery runs the entire width on north side of chapel room thus affording all facilities for a large convenient audience room. The space remaining between chapel and main building, on second floor and above pupils' dining room, is divided info commodious rooms for library, reading room, museum, board room, superintendent's main office and book-keeper's office. A large hallway passes through the center while two pairs of large folding doors open into the chapel so as to secure additional room for chapel purposes when occasions require it. Above these rooms and in rear of gallery, in the third story of the building, are four large sleeping apartments for officers of the institution. This new addition, viz., the enlargement of pupils' dining room, gallery, library, and offices and private rooms above was erected, in 1890, by provisions of the Twenty-third General Assembly and affords adequate accommodations for the purposes.