THE LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE.

The Annual Report of the Board for 1857 contained a detailed description of the Dwight Grammar School House, accompanied by plans and a perspective view. The Dwight was selected for the purpose of a description, because it was then the latest, and besides, it was a good specimen of the most approved school edifices which had been erected in this city previously to that date. The class which it represents consists of the Lawrence, the Winthrop and the Adams Grammar School buildings, to which the new Franklin, on Ringgold street, has since been added. These five structures are similar in respect to size, plan and style of architecture. They are well adapted to our system of organization and classification of Grammar Schools, combining, in a high degree, economy of space with convenience of arrangement in regard to school rooms, clothes closets, corridors, staircases and warming apparatus.

They are noble edifices, and are creditable to the city, though there is one feature in their plan which is not altogether satisfactory, namely, the assembly hall, which is deficient both in size and symmetry of proportion. There are also some objections to that part of the plan which places school rooms so high up as the fourth story. But though these buildings are economical and wellarranged, not much can be said in praise of their architectural appearance. "The style of architecture," as was justly remarked in the description above alluded

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