PEABODY

SCHOOL.

The AMES, BATES, BENTON, CARONDELET, CARR LANE, CARROLL, CLAY, CLINTON, DIVOLL, DOUGLAS, ELIOT, HUMBOLDT, IRVING, LACLEDE,
LINCOLN, LYON, MADISON, O'FALLON, PEABODY, POPE and SUMNER SCHOOLS are built substantially in this style.

For ground plans, see next page.

PLAN OF FIRST STORY.

PLAN OF SECOND STORY.
GROUND PLANS OF THE PEABODY SCHOOL.

Twelve School rooms, each 27 by 32 feet and 14 feet high, lighted each by four windows, arranged two in back part of the room and two at
the side. Sliding doors in the second and third stories separate the rooms, and can be pushed back for general exercises, such as singing, etc.
for the teacher's desk is placed against the inside wall, so that the pupils do not face the light.
Flues for ventilating and heating purposes may be seen in that part of the outside and inside walls where the sliding doors go back. The platform
In the rear of the hall on the second floor is a room
for the principal. Wardrobes are seen in the corners at the ends of the hall, one attached to each room, and having doors opening into the school-
room, and also out into the hall; the pupils pass through these into the hall, getting their hats or bonnets on the way.