Upon opening the bids, it was found that Peoria had offered in the aggregate, including the estimated value of the site, over $80,000; and

In this story, (Fig. 2,) are the Janitor's House, (1,) consisting of a parlor, kitchen, cellar, three bedrooms, etc.; storage room, (2); laboratory, (3); chemical-lecture room (4); boys' play-room for Model School (5); boiler or furnace rooms (6); girls' playroom for Model School (7); corridor (8); filtering cisterns (9); and stairways (10).

that Bloomington had offered in the aggregate, including the estimated value of the site, over $140,000. McLean county, by an appropriation

In the principal story, (Fig. 3) 15 feet high in the clear, are the Principal's room, 30ft. x22ft. 6in. (1); the reception room, 31ft. 6in. ×27ft. (2); book and apparatus room, 31ft. 6in. X27ft. (3); teachers' retiring room, 30ft.x22ft. 6in. (4); gentlemen's wardrobe, 32ft.X19ft. 9in. (5); masters' wardrobe for Model School, 32ft.X10ft. 2in. (6); Model-School rooms, 32x32ft. and 25ft. 6in.+37ft. 6in. (7); misses' wardrobe for Model School, 32ft x10ft. 2in. (8); corridors (9); and the stairways (10).

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of $70,000 from her swamp-land fund, enabled Bloomington thus to outstrip her rival.

We know of nothing more honorable than this competition between the different towns of Illinois, for the advantages which must flow from an institution of this kind rightly managed, in all future time.

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Fig. 4. PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.

In the second story, (Fig. 4,) 16 feet high in the clear, are the Normal School room, 60×66ft. (1); two lecture rooms, 51X32ft. (2); four class rooms, 30×23ft. (3) · two class rooms, 27x15ft. (4); and the stairways (5).

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The Board of Education elected Prof. C. E. Hovey, (Principal of the Union School of Peoria,) Principal, and adopted, on his recommendation and that of G. P. Randall, Architect, of Chicago, the plan of a building to accommodate three hundred normal pupils, and two hundred model school pupils, and to be erected at a cost of $80,000. The exterior and internal arrangements of the building, are represented in the diagrams : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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Fig. 5. PLAN OF THIRD FLOOR.

In the third story (Fig. 5,) 20 feet high in the clear, are the Normal Hall, 65×75 ft. (1); library, 32ft. 4in. X48ft. Gin. (2); museum, 32ft. 4in. × 18ft. 6in. (3); gallery of painting and statuary, 32ft. 4in. ×48ft. Gin. (4); music room, 32×25ft. (5); and an ante room, 32ft. 4in. ×22ft. 4 in. (6).

The building is warmed by steam, and the ventilation of each room is secured by a separate flue properly constructed for this purpose.

The seats and desks are manufactured by Joseph L. Ross, Boston, after the most approved patterns.