Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2.

The walls all round are to be in thickness the length of one Brick of Eight inches in length and of four inches in Breadth. In the front and in the Rear three windows, and one at each end of the House, twenty-four panes in each window, and glazed with good Glass of the size denominated seven by nine. The east window to be placed as the Comm. shall direct; four of the windows to be furnished with blinds painted and hung with hinges above the window frames. There is to be one outside door———--to open into an entry which is to be laid out five feet wide from the east end of the House the whole breadth with one inch and 1/4 Board tight; in the middle of which partition a door is to be made opening into the school apartment. The entry is to be plastered on the brick wall, and lathed and plastered above. The apartment for the school to be laid out 21 1/2 ft sq and seats and desks and benches to be laid out and erected according to a plan made by Thos. Pratt, Carpenter. The walls inside are to be boarded up to the lower part of the Window Frames, and above are to be plastered on the Brick work up to the plate from whence the ceiling is to be arched and lathed and plastered and white washed.

A small chimney is to be built on the Top of the House in the centre of the Building for the purpose of