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Domestic News
July 27, 1866
The Evening Telegraph
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
Contracts awarded for three new school houses in the city: two in the First Ward at Ninth and Tasker (50x70 ft, two stories) and Second and Morris (47x70 ft, two stories), and one in Germantown on Main below Mill (50x52 ft).
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CONTRACTS FOR BUILDING SCHOOL HOUSES.—The city is about to increase the accommodations for the education of the masses. Contracts have been entered into for the erection of two school-houses in the First Ward. One is to be put up at Ninth and Tasker streets, and is to be fifty by seventy feet, the other at Second and Morris streets, and to be forty-seven by seventy feet. Both of them are to be two stories high. A contract has been entered into for the erection of a school-house on Main street, below Mill, Germantown, to be fifty by fifty-two feet.
What sub-type of article is it?
Education
Infrastructure
What keywords are associated?
School Houses
Construction Contracts
First Ward
Germantown
Education Facilities
Where did it happen?
First Ward, Germantown
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
First Ward, Germantown
Event Details
Contracts entered for erecting two school-houses in the First Ward: one at Ninth and Tasker streets, fifty by seventy feet, two stories high; the other at Second and Morris streets, forty-seven by seventy feet, two stories high. Additional contract for a school-house on Main street below Mill, Germantown, fifty by fifty-two feet.