Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fortieth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society, With the Proceedings of the Board of Directors and of the Society: January 20, 1857
This college building will be 70 feet long, 45 feet wide, and three stories high. It will contain apartments for two members of the college faculty and their families, who will reside in the building and have the immediate oversight of the students; a dining room sufficient or these families and the students; a room for the library and philosophical apparatus a hall to be used as a chapel, lecture room, or for any other purpose for which all the students need to be convened rooms for recitation and for study in classes dormitories for stu-v dents, and the necessary offices, store rooms, and other accommodations. The kitchen is to be a detached building, in easy communication with the dining room.
The walls of the college building are to he of brick, on a foundation of Li beria granite rising two feet above the surface of the earth. About half of the brick goes out in the Dirigo. The remainder, with the lime, will be procured in the immediate vicinity.
The building will be surrounded by a verandah eight feet wide, supported by an iron frame, the posts of which will be inserted into blocks of granite, Doors open from each story of the building into the corresponding story of the verandah.
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