The District Schools of Gernzany occupy an intermediate position be tween the free and the grammar schools, and are intended for the children of persons of Ihnited means. The chief difference between them and the free schools is that in the district school a moderate sum is charged for tuition, the arrangements are more like those of the grammar schools, and they are in many cases identical.
Dresden District 5 is an exterior view of a district or parish school, and Figure 6 is the ground-plan. This school is in the Pill nitzer Strasse in Dresden, and was built (r867-1868) by the City Board of Works. By a peculiar arrangement, the staircases and privies are made double, so as to divide the building- into a boys' and girls' department, while all that is common to both schools is in the middle of the buirding. The four gable-ends are constructed without windows, so that the light may enter the school-room from but one direction. The building contains accommodations for eight classes of boys and eight classes of girls, six being in each of the wings and four in the front part of the ground floor and second story of the main building. The third story of the latter is occupied by the dwelling of the principal, while the rear part of the main building on the ground floor is reserved for rooms for the janitor, and on the second floor for business-rooms and a store-room for school supplies. The arrangement for the ventilation of the class-rooms, which is connected with a hot-air heating apparatus, is very effective.
Chemnitz Technical technical schools are modern institu tions restricted rather to the arts and sciences than to the professional or liberal branches, and are intended as a preparation for the high schools, Polytechnic, and universities. The example in Fig-ures 7 and was bnilt (1868-1869)0n the Reitbahn Strasse Chemnitz by the City Board of Works. Figure 8 shows the perspective of the exterior, and Figure 7 the ground plan of the second story. The latter has in the middle of the building a grand central hall (a) extending npward through both stories, being dis tinguished on the exterior by larg-e windows and rich ornamentation. At the rear, besides a grand double-headed stairway, there is a light-well (g). On the right is a large room (b) for drawing, on the left the privies (h), a connecting passage (f), a lock-up, or safe (e), and at the rear face of the building the museums of natural history (a' , ), Filially, in the wings are eight lecture-rooms (c, c) with corridors.
The ground floor of the building contains in the middle of the front an open porch and a spacious vestibule, adjacent to which, on the right, are the dwelling- and office of the janitor. On the left is the physical de
partment, with the laboratory and the recitation-rooms for the classes in physics, and also other class-rooms, In the right wing, next to the jani tor's apartments, are business-rooms for the teachers, a despatching-room, and at the extreme right two more class-rooms like those upon the second story. In the rear of the main building there are additional water-closets, and under the museums of the second floor extend chemical class-rooms, a small laboratory, and a museum. On the third story, at the rear, are three library-rooms; a librarian's room stands over the safe, or lock-up, and the other rooms correspond with those beneath. In the right wing there is a large room for drawing, which is provided with cabinets at the side for teachers and for drawing-utensils. In the basement, besides cel lars and storing-places for fuel, there are four heating chambers, iu which Kelling's heaters are used, combined with a system of ventilation.
American —The vast requirements of the free-school sys tem of the United States have led to the use of a great variety of buildings, and in. different sections they may be seen, from the long, low shed with a row of single panes of glass set into the side walls without sashes, through all grades of architectural device, to the ornate edifices resembling Nor man castles and Gothic cathedrals.
Girls' .A'ormal type of a substantial and capacious build ing- may be found in the Girls' Normal School, Philadelphia. The ground plan is a simple parallelogram with two halls, each 16 feet wide, crossing the middle in both directions, with wide stairways at each end. Upon each side of the longest hall are six class-rooms, 35 by zo feet, the four corner ones being slightly larger. Upon the second floor a similar hall rims through the building, the entire space upon one side being devoted to an assembly-room, 107 by 66 feet, containing at one side a raised platform 54 by 15 feet. A hall at right angles with the former divides the remaining space in the middle, having on each side cloak-rooms 5 by 13.6 feet, a pupils' dressing--room, and a teachers' room 26 by 12 feet. Behind these smaller apartments are class-rooms, three on each side. The third story contains twelve class-rooms, repeating the plan of the first floor. The building- was erected at a cost of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.